Chain of custody receipt

Source #6249

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.

TitleInfluenceWatch FEC analysis
Original URLhttps://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/donor_detail/2024?id=U0000004136&name=Hoffman,+Reid+Garrett&super_only=S&type=I
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typediscovery_scope_note
Date2020-12-31
EntitySenate Majority PAC
Captured2026-04-13T02:58:12.343Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-13T02:58:12.343Z UTC
SHA-25616691f6c8a4de658b1399653a7573bdafbeacc618fb41ab3bcdb29eec000a6b9
Content length70 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
Senate Majority PAC received $3 million from Hoffman between 2018-2020

Verifying this receipt

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sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

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  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
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  -H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --data-binary @document.txt

Companion machine-readable receipt: /source/6249/receipt.json