Chain of custody receipt

Source #2816

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.

TitleStatista analysis of USASpending.gov data
Original URLhttps://www.war.gov/News/Contracts/Search/palantir/
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2008-01-01
EntityUS Army
Captured2026-04-08T17:48:41.940Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T17:48:41.940Z UTC
SHA-256efc09fe232ff97b4a3b75deaccdfa8350960b6abd1be40e3ccb37ed338366c3e
Content length180 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
The U.S. Army has awarded the highest amount to Palantir at $730.3 million since 2008, followed by U.S. Air Force at $486.2 million and Special Operations Command at $303.7 million

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/2816/receipt.json