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Proof: Forty-five North Carolina property owners sued over roads planned through their neighborhoods

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fbe6039f6680cddb17a984f3083cc152ca33c0ba9bc02acc798be0b0da29dd30

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Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-30 00:02 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-30 00:04 UTC — view the capture.
• 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-fbe6039f6680.json prints fbe6039f6680cddb17a984f3083cc152ca33c0ba9bc02acc798be0b0da29dd30. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-fbe6039f6680.json and headline-fbe6039f6680.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-fbe6039f6680.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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