Chain of custody receipt

Source #124

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: Thiel Capital - federal contracts site:usaspending.gov
Original URLhttps://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=eyJmaWx0ZXJzIjp7ImtleXdvcmQiOiJUaGllbCBDYXBpdGFsIn19
PublicationPublic Record Research
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2024
EntityThiel Capital
Captured2026-04-05T07:53:22.099Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-05T07:53:22.099Z UTC
SHA-25622fb63008c10e34b870bb1cd3c4f22d3b3bf574a83433329c6ba1f9cdbac5208
Content length789 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars)
Thiel Capital is Peter Thiel's personal investment vehicle and family office, distinct from his venture capital firms Founders Fund and Mithril Capital. Based on available public information through my knowledge cutoff, Thiel Capital itself does not appear as a direct federal contractor in USASpending.gov records. This is consistent with its structure as a private investment management entity rather than a government services provider. Federal contracting relationships in the Thiel network typically flow through portfolio companies rather than through Thiel Capital directly. The most notable example is Palantir Technologies, which Thiel co-founded and funded, which has extensive federal contracts. However, Palantir is a separate public company, not a subsidiary of Thiel Capital.

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

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

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  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.

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  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/124/receipt.json