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Proof: Health NZ chases $70m in unpaid medical bills from tourists and migrants

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-06T23:31:33Z","headline":"Health NZ chases $70m in unpaid medical bills from tourists and migrants","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"rnz","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/1773344/health-nz-chases-70m-in-unpaid-health-bills-from-tourists-and-migrants","v":1}

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SHA-256

cb06211d1043eb0f08f209e0d00f5335349dace3ebc81ac29ded9febae3c0a24

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970255, mined 2026-10-06 23:56 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-06 23:32 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-06 22:47 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-cb06211d1043.json prints cb06211d1043eb0f08f209e0d00f5335349dace3ebc81ac29ded9febae3c0a24. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-cb06211d1043.json and headline-cb06211d1043.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-cb06211d1043.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.