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Proof: Vote counting under way for bypolls to five Assembly seats, one Lok Sabha seat | LIVE updates

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4d0ce8b3e98b7317516bf00d012c27e50fc80993912b1f5438f09d912a4dfc2c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970582, mined 2026-10-09 04:29 UTC.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-4d0ce8b3e98b.json prints 4d0ce8b3e98b7317516bf00d012c27e50fc80993912b1f5438f09d912a4dfc2c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-4d0ce8b3e98b.json and headline-4d0ce8b3e98b.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-4d0ce8b3e98b.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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