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Proof: Five years and $10,000 later: Why upgrading Melbourne apartments is proving impossible

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-05T01:03:08Z","headline":"Five years and $10,000 later: Why upgrading Melbourne apartments is proving impossible","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"theage","url":"https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/five-years-and-10-000-later-why-upgrading-melbourne-apartments-is-proving-impossible-20261005-p612ni.html","v":1}

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557783e73afc3f11a4147a2be3d043e6dcd8e51db8b7a2604cb01768898ebbb7

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969934, mined 2026-10-05 01:15 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-05 01:23 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-557783e73afc.json prints 557783e73afc3f11a4147a2be3d043e6dcd8e51db8b7a2604cb01768898ebbb7. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-557783e73afc.json and headline-557783e73afc.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-557783e73afc.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, 4 min after it was first seen.