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Proof: Abdul El-Sayed, Mike Rogers trade jabs in high-stakes midterm debate

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

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SHA-256

f916eb91e79720e187a8be7cb9ddda0e8059cc1df5aa33520116c967cb29d067

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970560, mined 2026-10-09 01:09 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-09 00:59 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 23:18 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-f916eb91e797.json prints f916eb91e79720e187a8be7cb9ddda0e8059cc1df5aa33520116c967cb29d067. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-f916eb91e797.json and headline-f916eb91e797.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-f916eb91e797.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.