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Proof: Car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans farewelling team before grand final

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T01:50:49Z","headline":"Car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans farewelling team before grand final","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/rugby-league/nrl/newcastle-knights-fans-injured-after-car-crashes-into-crowd-before-nrl-grand-final/A2HLAJELQNHIHEEL2WUIFNXZ6U/","v":1}

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SHA-256

d2f129f35dce04711275f56d1da9002b0e5d5e7b2dea1bf92eb41720a7a6687a

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969657, mined 2026-10-03 02:18 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:52 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:52 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-d2f129f35dce.json prints d2f129f35dce04711275f56d1da9002b0e5d5e7b2dea1bf92eb41720a7a6687a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-d2f129f35dce.json and headline-d2f129f35dce.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-d2f129f35dce.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.