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Proof: 'Those poor babies': Children among 16 dead in 47 days amid spate of violence

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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8ba26c0ad7fc30151d7201559ca854c38c1942480e492d53d319ad6e5f05cc07

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970108, mined 2026-10-06 01:09 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 01:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 00:18 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-8ba26c0ad7fc.json prints 8ba26c0ad7fc30151d7201559ca854c38c1942480e492d53d319ad6e5f05cc07. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-8ba26c0ad7fc.json and headline-8ba26c0ad7fc.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-8ba26c0ad7fc.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.