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Proof: Pennsylvania farmer protects 170-acre farm after turning down two lucrative development offers

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2991517e96f2fe5efffa2ed1e75dbb31a25f4b63cb851b76039d33502a4b84d9

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969002, mined 2026-09-28 13:30 UTC.

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• The story pageThe Wayback Machine could not capture the story page: submit: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-2991517e96f2.json prints 2991517e96f2fe5efffa2ed1e75dbb31a25f4b63cb851b76039d33502a4b84d9. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-2991517e96f2.json and headline-2991517e96f2.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-2991517e96f2.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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