Chain of custody receipt

Source #106

Cryptographic attestation that the document below was captured in Goblin House's archive at the timestamp shown, with the hash listed. If the original URL goes dark or its content changes, this receipt remains as evidence of what the public record looked like at capture time.

TitleResearch: Crescendo Equity Partners - federal contracts site:usaspending.gov
Original URLhttps://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=eyJmaWx0ZXJzIjp7ImtleXdvcmQiOiJDcmVzY2VuZG8gRXF1aXR5IFBhcnRuZXJzIn19
PublicationPublic Record Research
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2024
EntityCrescendo Equity Partners
Captured2026-04-05T07:50:35.887Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-05T07:50:35.887Z UTC
SHA-256a31a4313e9ce98e2966f87ffb3ff28cc1388072771a78b8e3ec690013ba91ae8
Content length647 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars)
A search for 'Crescendo Equity Partners' in relation to federal contracts on USASpending.gov yields no confirmed direct contract awards to an entity by this exact name in my training data. Crescendo Equity Partners appears to be a private equity firm, and such firms typically do not receive direct federal contracts. However, portfolio companies owned by private equity firms may hold federal contracts. Without access to real-time USASpending.gov data, I cannot confirm specific contract records. Any investigation should directly query USASpending.gov's searchable database for the entity name and any known subsidiaries or portfolio companies.

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

Anyone with a copy of the original document can verify the match:

  1. Take the URL field and the original document content.
  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
  3. Compare to the SHA-256 row above.

Or POST the candidate content to /source/106/verify and our server will compare for you:

curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/106/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/106/receipt.json