Headline Half-Life · headlinehalflife.com · a public record of front pages

← the record

Proof: Hong Kong may use exchange fund to buy gold, John Lee says after historic 5-year plan

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-16T04:40:51Z","headline":"Hong Kong may use exchange fund to buy gold, John Lee says after historic 5-year plan","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"scmp","url":"https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/3367652/historic-moment-hong-kong-john-lee-set-deliver-citys-first-ever-5-year-plan?module=breaking&pgtype=homepage","v":1}

Download headline-16a77b2b1919.json

SHA-256
16a77b2b1919c443d7181c0a293c0c8b860f235693a4ef156030f639c75f03a2

OpenTimestamps

Not sealed.

Wayback Machine

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-16a77b2b1919.json prints 16a77b2b1919c443d7181c0a293c0c8b860f235693a4ef156030f639c75f03a2. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. There is no OpenTimestamps receipt for this record yet.
  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.

This headline has not been sealed. Headlines are sealed automatically within minutes of first being seen; older ones are sealed on request, and are then marked as a backfill.