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Proof: End of long wait as Linda Mwananchi gets Sifuna's 2027 vehicle

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T21:02:08Z","headline":"End of long wait as Linda Mwananchi gets Sifuna's 2027 vehicle","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"standardke","url":"https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/national/article/2001559411/end-of-long-wait-as-linda-mwananchi-gets-sifunas-2027-vehicle","v":1}

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7ade29825dc81abbe07696d045e4ff5a02c19560c4d5c9f35bfe5ca87ba23ac5

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969903, mined 2026-10-04 21:18 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 00:02 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 21:08 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7ade29825dc8.json prints 7ade29825dc81abbe07696d045e4ff5a02c19560c4d5c9f35bfe5ca87ba23ac5. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7ade29825dc8.json and headline-7ade29825dc8.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-7ade29825dc8.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.