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Proof: P-plater in horror Newcastle car crash pictured

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T01:12:41Z","headline":"P-plater in horror Newcastle car crash pictured","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"smh","url":"https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/p-plater-in-horror-newcastle-knights-car-crash-previously-lost-his-licence-20261004-p612mb.html","v":1}

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SHA-256

420c9cc7de3fb6326a226821bbb2bc2bfe4766cbf2daf2318fb773e3e60557ab

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969787, mined 2026-10-04 02:17 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 01:17 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-420c9cc7de3f.json prints 420c9cc7de3fb6326a226821bbb2bc2bfe4766cbf2daf2318fb773e3e60557ab. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-420c9cc7de3f.json and headline-420c9cc7de3f.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-420c9cc7de3f.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, 4 min after it was first seen.