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Proof: As US weighs tighter curbs on foreign drones, could Chinese makers lose ground?

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2576896f1e1d887d86aaeee5535361015453d5833ece73a90459dd18710237e6

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969002, mined 2026-09-28 13:30 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 13:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-2576896f1e1d.json prints 2576896f1e1d887d86aaeee5535361015453d5833ece73a90459dd18710237e6. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-2576896f1e1d.json and headline-2576896f1e1d.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-2576896f1e1d.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.

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