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Proof: China has dominated tungsten for decades. Can US investment loosen its grip?

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e68bc6198babf8c0f361ba46277b42e312e9eb41fd08395ec17724caaffa2dea

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969656, mined 2026-10-03 02:16 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:37 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:39 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-e68bc6198bab.json prints e68bc6198babf8c0f361ba46277b42e312e9eb41fd08395ec17724caaffa2dea. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-e68bc6198bab.json and headline-e68bc6198bab.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-e68bc6198bab.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.