Chain of custody receipt

Source #2863

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.

TitleTax Notes analysis of USASpending.gov data
Original URLhttps://www.nasdaq.com/articles/government-contract-update-30m-payment-palantir-technologies-inc
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2018-01-01
EntityInternal Revenue Service (IRS)
Captured2026-04-08T17:54:56.112Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T17:54:56.112Z UTC
SHA-256dd56a66c6acc2ea3d98bf520aa649b22b384614b4f6518000cd4a17ac33bcb31
Content length107 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
Palantir has received over $180 million in payments from the IRS since 2018 in connection with 26 contracts

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/2863/verify and our server will compare for you:

curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/2863/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/2863/receipt.json