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Proof: Police repel bandit attack in Sokoto, recover two rocket launchers

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T00:10:21Z","headline":"Police repel bandit attack in Sokoto, recover two rocket launchers","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"premiumtimes","url":"https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/914180-police-repel-bandit-attack-in-sokoto-recover-two-rocket-launchers.html","v":1}

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7a235ee39a3c38d5ad62d141ad55070bd1737aaad4634eaa19695b0347113a34

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969650, mined 2026-10-03 00:20 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 00:13 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 00:13 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7a235ee39a3c.json prints 7a235ee39a3c38d5ad62d141ad55070bd1737aaad4634eaa19695b0347113a34. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7a235ee39a3c.json and headline-7a235ee39a3c.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-7a235ee39a3c.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, 2 min after it was first seen.