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Proof: Second Thomas Shoal stand-off sparks sharp exchange between US, China embassies

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256

4204f2c7b8a2103c93469aca788d43d393d106b34cd04dabc50098bb75377b95

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968971, mined 2026-09-28 09:19 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 08:12 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 08:13 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-4204f2c7b8a2.json prints 4204f2c7b8a2103c93469aca788d43d393d106b34cd04dabc50098bb75377b95. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-4204f2c7b8a2.json and headline-4204f2c7b8a2.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-4204f2c7b8a2.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.