Recorded on Base Sepolia using canonicalization v1 and record format v1.
How this article reaches the blockchain
It was combined with the other 3 articles published that day, one step at a time, until the whole day became a single value. That one value is what Vitahash wrote to the blockchain. Change a single character of this article and the starting value below changes, so none of the steps would land on the recorded one.
Copy this text, paste it into any SHA-256 tool, and compare the result with the hash shown above. If the two match, this is exactly what Vitahash recorded.
For a technical reader: the terminal route
1. Hash the article yourself
This downloads the exact text Vitahash hashed, in the exact form it hashed it, and hashes it again on your machine. Nothing Vitahash wrote runs here.
curl -s "https://api.vitahash.org/api/verify/STAMP-2026-0816-BJJWEFAX/canonical" | shasum -a 256
Should print 1b9aba6d6282e14a5bea7463fafb1dc02dbe58b8850d45b636d1d3dc32b44057
2. Build this article's starting value
The stamp ID is folded in with the hash, so one article's record can never stand in for another's.
Should print efc3539a51055d08f914159a81c083e866d01fdff7c3901b7c0ba1fe65289356
5. Compare with the blockchain
The last value above is what the whole day came to. Read the record on Base and check its merkleRoot field is the same. Vitahash is not involved in this step at all.