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Proof: Dementia researchers had no answers for years. Now, the word ‘breakthrough’ is on their lips

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f5b3e898160459bb2e698334f44d62ed2df2093d0dfbfde212a57bdfa507334c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970090, mined 2026-10-05 22:57 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 22:44 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-f5b3e8981604.json prints f5b3e898160459bb2e698334f44d62ed2df2093d0dfbfde212a57bdfa507334c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f5b3e8981604.json and headline-f5b3e8981604.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-f5b3e8981604.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.