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Proof: €500 disability payment, rural pub tax rebate in Budget

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T20:11:38Z","headline":"€500 disability payment, rural pub tax rebate in Budget","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"rte","url":"https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/1005/1593973-budget-2027-talks/","v":1}

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bd0bc2b61f20b338eab584af6d2af533533e20e257b928f3216e890e7bc8c0b3

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970075, mined 2026-10-05 20:13 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 20:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 17:31 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-bd0bc2b61f20.json prints bd0bc2b61f20b338eab584af6d2af533533e20e257b928f3216e890e7bc8c0b3. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-bd0bc2b61f20.json and headline-bd0bc2b61f20.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-bd0bc2b61f20.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.