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Proof: Two children aged six and nine among three found dead in South Auckland home

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T00:21:44Z","headline":"Two children aged six and nine among three found dead in South Auckland home","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/papatoetoe-triple-tragedy-two-children-identified-among-three-found-dead/6X3LDOTN7VBSHHSLASK7TGCZTU/","v":1}

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19e56008b7d65ded5c36aa8930ea07d49426605f1cc8a51274c59bdcabccacc8

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969926, mined 2026-10-05 00:40 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:40 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:22 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-19e56008b7d6.json prints 19e56008b7d65ded5c36aa8930ea07d49426605f1cc8a51274c59bdcabccacc8. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-19e56008b7d6.json and headline-19e56008b7d6.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-19e56008b7d6.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.