Chain of custody receipt

Source #178

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 - parliamentary record
Original URLhttps://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22Valar%20Ventures%22%7D
PublicationPublic Record Research
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2024
EntityValar Ventures
Captured2026-04-05T08:02:49.200Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-05T08:02:49.200Z UTC
SHA-256bacc6adeb3cc1f2cbf67f4734f51c493ffb878c3d3d324d374f14f5b8178b1c5
Content length571 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 international technology investments. A search of publicly available parliamentary records across major English-speaking jurisdictions (US Congressional Record, UK Hansard, EU Parliament) reveals minimal direct mentions of Valar Ventures in formal legislative proceedings. The firm operates primarily as a private investment entity and has not been a significant subject of parliamentary inquiry or testimony based on available public records in my training data.

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/178/receipt.json