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Proof: Swiss President Guy Parmelin to step down and make way for ‘new blood’

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f12de958a01e4b7ffcfaebdc7233889ad1f1d700e204a0ad4fe506dc2d9ecc71

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969596, mined 2026-10-02 13:23 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-02 12:57 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-02 09:33 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f12de958a01e.json prints f12de958a01e4b7ffcfaebdc7233889ad1f1d700e204a0ad4fe506dc2d9ecc71. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f12de958a01e.json and headline-f12de958a01e.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-f12de958a01e.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.