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Proof: Last chance saloon: EU presses China for a sign to prove trade talks can work

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5ca238ac6e9cac536593a7666def1aac7a483e109e6fcd95922327dee5f2ff63

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970298, mined 2026-10-07 05:53 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-07 05:24 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-07 05:24 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-5ca238ac6e9c.json prints 5ca238ac6e9cac536593a7666def1aac7a483e109e6fcd95922327dee5f2ff63. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-5ca238ac6e9c.json and headline-5ca238ac6e9c.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-5ca238ac6e9c.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.