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Proof: ‘Hard to wrap your head around’: Fans in shock as horror crash mars Knights farewell

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-03T03:31:17Z","headline":"‘Hard to wrap your head around’: Fans in shock as horror crash mars Knights farewell","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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efe16e468d6de3b3c0836502292fdda28cec20157a0f02104a47b789bc18eb05

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969668, mined 2026-10-03 03:49 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-03 03:32 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: error:no-request.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-efe16e468d6d.json prints efe16e468d6de3b3c0836502292fdda28cec20157a0f02104a47b789bc18eb05. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-efe16e468d6d.json and headline-efe16e468d6d.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-efe16e468d6d.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.