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Proof: Melbourne’s airport rail may finally get moving, but there’s a big catch for the final stop

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-29T20:32:25Z","headline":"Melbourne’s airport rail may finally get moving, but there’s a big catch for the final stop","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/carroll-makes-tracks-in-pre-election-rush-to-build-airport-rail-link-20260930-p611hn.html","v":1}

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652bfe7d5e72b042686bb8138f2e8fecc042f02749323ec359f4802b60ce863b

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Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-29 20:37 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-29 20:38 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-652bfe7d5e72.json prints 652bfe7d5e72b042686bb8138f2e8fecc042f02749323ec359f4802b60ce863b. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-652bfe7d5e72.json and headline-652bfe7d5e72.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-652bfe7d5e72.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.

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