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Proof: Nurses and midwives to protest at hospitals over pay

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-08T00:10:06Z","headline":"Nurses and midwives to protest at hospitals over pay","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"rte","url":"https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/1008/1594481-public-sector-pay-protests/","v":1}

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SHA-256

00aff0d26029e519c8157f0d14803f970e01164265120764bc8607f276fda3b2

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970412, mined 2026-10-08 00:29 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-08 00:13 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 00:13 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-00aff0d26029.json prints 00aff0d26029e519c8157f0d14803f970e01164265120764bc8607f276fda3b2. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-00aff0d26029.json and headline-00aff0d26029.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-00aff0d26029.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.