Chain of custody receipt

Source #2499

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.

TitleMultiple financial news sources and Federal Reserve records
Original URLhttp://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bear-stearns-sold-to-j-p-morgan-chase
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2008-03-16
EntityLarry Fink
Captured2026-04-08T02:00:54.832Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T02:00:54.832Z UTC
SHA-256c29a797699c4abb14c6cbcd67e31e5e59f5e43107c72422a84c16486d2284076
Content length145 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner approached Larry Fink to have BlackRock assess and dispose of Bear Stearns' toxic assets

Verifying this receipt

The hash above was computed as:

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

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  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/2499/receipt.json