Chain of custody receipt

Source #4374

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.

TitleVirgin Islands government lawsuit complaint
Original URLhttps://www.trtworld.com/article/d5ec8d20b86d
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2017-12-31
EntitySouthern Trust Company
Captured2026-04-12T01:52:05.408Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-12T01:52:05.408Z UTC
SHA-25612f153c0846cc91adce7bff4c9f12c18b6e80acb5bbe3c7d36cbc2861afdf8b0
Content length184 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
Southern Trust Company received tax exemptions totaling $73.6 million between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2017, with Epstein's personal income tax exemption reaching $71.3 million

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/4374/verify and our server will compare for you:

curl -X POST https://www.goblinhouse.net/source/4374/verify \
  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/4374/receipt.json