Chain of custody receipt

Source #3261

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.

TitlePublic probate documents filed in U.S. Virgin Islands
Original URLhttps://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/page/file/1183116/dl?inline=
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2019-08-08
EntityThe 1953 Trust
Captured2026-04-08T20:29:18.608Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T20:29:18.608Z UTC
SHA-2563f57eace53a3d54adb53c13fecd21061ee32a07d63c943ab7cafc206d7ce69d1
Content length109 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
Epstein's will was signed on August 8, 2019, two days before his death, transferring assets to The 1953 Trust

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/3261/verify and our server will compare for you:

curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/3261/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/3261/receipt.json