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Proof: China’s ‘city of the future’, Xiongan, hunting high-value tech firms: sources

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1426047799a4faac168220db13120dc41103915b9dae8aabbfebf9ad6f0116ef

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970282, mined 2026-10-07 03:35 UTC.

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  1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-1426047799a4.json prints 1426047799a4faac168220db13120dc41103915b9dae8aabbfebf9ad6f0116ef. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
  2. Drop headline-1426047799a4.json and headline-1426047799a4.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-1426047799a4.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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