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Proof: South American had hotel and camper booked to make NZ drug run look like a holiday

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T04:42:18Z","headline":"South American had hotel and camper booked to make NZ drug run look like a holiday","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"nzherald","url":"https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/south-american-cocaine-mule-victor-hermosilla-caught-at-auckland-airport-ends-up-in-prison/6UEWV6RMBVCKZH54UG4MDGZWII/","v":1}

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SHA-256

e35a40e04207b42850fa251ea76f2e98b306193612841af0ec1187f3f5a9ac30

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970135, mined 2026-10-06 05:28 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 04:47 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 04:47 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e35a40e04207.json prints e35a40e04207b42850fa251ea76f2e98b306193612841af0ec1187f3f5a9ac30. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-e35a40e04207.json and headline-e35a40e04207.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-e35a40e04207.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, 5 min after it was first seen.