Chain of custody receipt

Source #175

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: Valar Ventures - federal contracts site:usaspending.gov
Original URLhttps://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=eyJmaWx0ZXJzIjp7ImtleXdvcmQiOiJWYWxhciBWZW50dXJlcyJ9fQ
PublicationPublic Record Research
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2024
EntityValar Ventures
Captured2026-04-05T08:02:23.883Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-05T08:02:23.883Z UTC
SHA-256b6eed67d0b875d60a3e5e9f23b3c2b4c027cd75b0f7474fe89daa780a32a4ac6
Content length607 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars)
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel and Andrew McCormack in 2010, focused on early-stage technology investments, particularly in fintech and international markets. As a venture capital investment firm, Valar Ventures does not typically serve as a direct federal contractor. A search of USASpending.gov for federal contract awards would be expected to yield minimal or no results, as VC firms generally do not provide goods or services to federal agencies. Any federal spending connections would more likely appear through their portfolio companies rather than the firm itself.

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/175/receipt.json