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Proof: Beijing wanted more from Xi’s state visit to Washington

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T23:52:43Z","headline":"Beijing wanted more from Xi’s state visit to Washington","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"scmp","url":"https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3369774/beijing-wanted-more-xis-washington-state-visit?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage","v":1}

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SHA-256

1db441f3cf2051ad44483a1dc98e29de13053cfee4a15d1b07f88fce05f3f9c5

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970100, mined 2026-10-06 00:06 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 23:57 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-05 21:22 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-1db441f3cf20.json prints 1db441f3cf2051ad44483a1dc98e29de13053cfee4a15d1b07f88fce05f3f9c5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-1db441f3cf20.json and headline-1db441f3cf20.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-1db441f3cf20.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.