Chain of custody receipt

Source #2667

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.

TitleDirect FINRA BrokerCheck searches returned no results for any variant of Steve Bannon's name
Original URLhttps://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/5573137
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date—
EntitySteve Bannon
Captured2026-04-08T17:33:01.495Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T17:33:01.495Z UTC
SHA-25648891b8da92253070b9ae1dd118351717bf844e5fa87aa3e5e0a26a43c4c2619
Content length135 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars)
No FINRA BrokerCheck record exists for Stephen Kevin Bannon, Stephen K. Bannon, or Steve Bannon despite comprehensive database searches

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/2667/verify and our server will compare for you:

curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/2667/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/2667/receipt.json