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Proof: If Nick Cave struggles to lock in a Melbourne venue for his homecoming, something is broken

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T22:01:29Z","headline":"If Nick Cave struggles to lock in a Melbourne venue for his homecoming, something is broken","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-world-of-resistance-that-almost-stopped-nick-cave-s-extraordinary-melbourne-homecoming-20261006-p60zru.html","v":1}

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4835e08d3d257337aaa5f09ca5445b04560b91686bf3cceb761a7e72c45fd7cf

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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 22:02 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-4835e08d3d25.json prints 4835e08d3d257337aaa5f09ca5445b04560b91686bf3cceb761a7e72c45fd7cf. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-4835e08d3d25.json and headline-4835e08d3d25.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-4835e08d3d25.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.