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Proof: McDonald’s is making this change to drive-thrus at some locations

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-29T22:20:39Z","headline":"McDonald’s is making this change to drive-thrus at some locations","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"usatoday","url":"https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2026/09/29/mcdonalds-drive-thru-screens-ads/92007161007/","v":1}

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SHA-256

be71efc95e70167d887b3a64a22ec885255819ab60580c6e3bddb1d5b0df3b94

OpenTimestamps

Submitted to the OpenTimestamps calendars 2026-09-29 22:22 UTC; waiting for a Bitcoin block (usually a few hours).

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-29 22:24 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-29 21:47 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-be71efc95e70.json prints be71efc95e70167d887b3a64a22ec885255819ab60580c6e3bddb1d5b0df3b94. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-be71efc95e70.json and headline-be71efc95e70.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-be71efc95e70.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.