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Proof: Auckland bin collectors dumped, offered chance to buy their own trucks

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-07T04:21:45Z","headline":"Auckland bin collectors dumped, offered chance to buy their own trucks","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"rnz","url":"https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions/1782858/auckland-bin-collectors-dumped-offered-chance-to-buy-their-own-rubbish-trucks","v":1}

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SHA-256

53a1450ec456972223e85534852c637f9ea1c06c01a9b1b4911911ec3b13fdf7

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970291, mined 2026-10-07 04:48 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:22 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 04:22 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-53a1450ec456.json prints 53a1450ec456972223e85534852c637f9ea1c06c01a9b1b4911911ec3b13fdf7. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-53a1450ec456.json and headline-53a1450ec456.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-53a1450ec456.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.