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Proof: Watch live: NSW Police, ministers providing update after horror Newcastle crash

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T04:12:24Z","headline":"Watch live: NSW Police, ministers providing update after horror Newcastle crash","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

7b7ca71d80f69c18b8c8deb35d1f5c57181d8c63e5356ef6fa8d161c0da5fd23

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969674, mined 2026-10-03 04:28 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 04:17 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7b7ca71d80f6.json prints 7b7ca71d80f69c18b8c8deb35d1f5c57181d8c63e5356ef6fa8d161c0da5fd23. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7b7ca71d80f6.json and headline-7b7ca71d80f6.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-7b7ca71d80f6.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.