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Proof: Excitement turns to tragedy as car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T01:22:22Z","headline":"Excitement turns to tragedy as car crashes into Newcastle Knights fans","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"smh","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/newcastle-crash-live-updates-multiple-injuries-after-car-hits-crowd-20261003-p612js.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

53549a367d460eaadc28e2f335e8d6c23c575bd9ac678c648228e7e1ea435f8a

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969655, mined 2026-10-03 02:11 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 01:27 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-53549a367d46.json prints 53549a367d460eaadc28e2f335e8d6c23c575bd9ac678c648228e7e1ea435f8a. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-53549a367d46.json and headline-53549a367d46.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-53549a367d46.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, 5 min after it was first seen.