Chain of custody receipt

Source #2670

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.

TitleWikipedia and Britannica sources document the sale to Société Générale
Original URLhttps://www.finra.org/investors/investing/working-with-investment-professional/about-brokercheck/search-help
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date1998-01-01
EntityBannon & Co.
Captured2026-04-08T17:33:01.512Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T17:33:01.512Z UTC
SHA-256820d85d0768aa5f5e88ab974461cbce482fdbd980201e142f036b62a0902e80d
Content length51 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
Société Générale purchased Bannon & Co. in 1998

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.

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curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/2670/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/2670/receipt.json