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Proof: US, China slash tariffs on basic goods – but leave rare earths off the record

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beb1ae067a8e07d839ab8e665b18199b4d22e899577c7e671f4d27174eb4c02c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 968966, mined 2026-09-28 07:32 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 07:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 07:18 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-beb1ae067a8e.json prints beb1ae067a8e07d839ab8e665b18199b4d22e899577c7e671f4d27174eb4c02c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-beb1ae067a8e.json and headline-beb1ae067a8e.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-beb1ae067a8e.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, 4 min after it was first seen.