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✅ Cryptographically verified · sealed pick #226

Forge vs Vancouver FC

Premier League · Canada · 01 Jul 2026, 17:00 UTC

Final score
3 : 2
Result
Won
Pick
Forge
Market
1x2
Model prob.
67.5%
Best price
1.63
Min odds
1.57
Stake factor
1.70

Proof this pick was locked in before kickoff

The pick was encrypted before kickoff and published the moment it was sealed to Telegram and GitHub, each carrying an independent timestamp. The encrypted batch is also anchored in Bitcoin — a public record nobody, including us, can alter or back-date. After the match the key is released; decrypting that exact pre-published message reveals the pick, proving it was fixed in advance, not cherry-picked.

Encrypted pick (AES-256-GCM)
Z7wOw9EZbeBvlQHeGfnGC4+IytCO01I7VjUVW+oRRmyA7CIZ4sEfxSl4YmTrkAe7DZODNeRqt5d9S0dLHXI8EPQpogQB5+j7yiFv736KH4unwpqkooQNC6LqDk6lAmiV+KeQlBpu/l+H+cj4P7tu6bw/8eQzKzISOoh67ZRnNKGZmOXduHsRWQbz+1EedmkZJUhWIq3LX2dnlgDf2ouEJrGIzK3KLg8lNNbaEoqOzAt2OqO/rCvOl6xvFpG8ICdU/sQ/L9aLB83hkkOR2Itt8f8W9ADSNKONG0ZrQuoc2HsKYmFT/VTG9Id2PgMi1wisyOqBvNFaK5zRZSq2f34Bqyto9JSS
key fingerprint sha256: 5b3897e6d212143052ebe4158df6de07252b253af0da373a5a129e68e7a38e84
Decrypt it & read the pick
Decryption key (released after the match)
388d4e38829e516f119cf99d3c00c4cff6c65a5ed8300cebec417b11c5cbf301
Decrypt in CyberChef →
Verify it yourself — paste both values, no install

The Encrypted pick above is base64( nonce[12 bytes] + ciphertext + tag[16 bytes] ), AES-256-GCM. Zero-install check: open your browser console (press F12Console), paste this, press Enter — it decrypts the exact pick shown above:

const blob = Uint8Array.from(atob("Z7wOw9EZbeBvlQHeGfnGC4+IytCO01I7VjUVW+oRRmyA7CIZ4sEfxSl4YmTrkAe7DZODNeRqt5d9S0dLHXI8EPQpogQB5+j7yiFv736KH4unwpqkooQNC6LqDk6lAmiV+KeQlBpu/l+H+cj4P7tu6bw/8eQzKzISOoh67ZRnNKGZmOXduHsRWQbz+1EedmkZJUhWIq3LX2dnlgDf2ouEJrGIzK3KLg8lNNbaEoqOzAt2OqO/rCvOl6xvFpG8ICdU/sQ/L9aLB83hkkOR2Itt8f8W9ADSNKONG0ZrQuoc2HsKYmFT/VTG9Id2PgMi1wisyOqBvNFaK5zRZSq2f34Bqyto9JSS"), c => c.charCodeAt(0));
const key  = Uint8Array.from("388d4e38829e516f119cf99d3c00c4cff6c65a5ed8300cebec417b11c5cbf301".match(/../g).map(h => parseInt(h, 16)));
crypto.subtle.importKey("raw", key, "AES-GCM", false, ["decrypt"])
  .then(k => crypto.subtle.decrypt({ name: "AES-GCM", iv: blob.slice(0, 12) }, k, blob.slice(12)))
  .then(b => console.log(new TextDecoder().decode(b)));

Prefer a GUI? The orange button opens CyberChef pre-filled. Or split the parts yourself for any AES-256-GCM tool:

  • Algorithm: AES-256-GCM
  • Key (hex): 388d4e38829e516f119cf99d3c00c4cff6c65a5ed8300cebec417b11c5cbf301
  • IV / nonce (hex): 67bc0ec3d1196de06f9501de
  • Ciphertext (hex): 19f9c60b8f88cad08ed3523b5635155bea11466c80ec2219e2c11fc529786264eb9007bb0d938335e46ab7977d4b474b1d723c10f429a20401e7e8fbca216fef7e8a1f8ba7c29aa4a2840d0ba2ea0e4ea5026895f8a790941a6efe5f87f9c8f83fbb6ee9bc3ff1e4332b32123a887aed946734a19998e5ddb87b115906f3fb511e76691925485622adcb5f67679600dfda8b8426b188ccadca2e0f2534d6da128a8ecc0b763aa3bfac2bce97ac6f1691bc202754fec43f2fd68b07cde1924391d88b6df1ff16f400d234a38d1b466b42ea1cd87b0a626153fd54c6f487763e0322d708acc8ea81bcd1
  • Auth tag (hex): 5a2b9cd1652ab67f7e01ab2b68f49492

Any standard AES-256-GCM tool returns the exact same pick — the algorithm is a public standard.

How to verify the Bitcoin timestamp yourself

Bitcoin doesn't store the pick — it stores a 32-byte fingerprint (SHA-256) of the encrypted batch, via OpenTimestamps. That fingerprint is frozen in a public block nobody can alter or back-date. You can't spot it by eye on a block explorer (a block holds thousands of unrelated transactions) — you verify it with the .ots proof and any OpenTimestamps tool:

  1. Download the sealed batch file (.jsonl) and its proof (.ots) from GitHub.
  2. Drop both into opentimestamps.org (or run ots verify *.ots). It replays the proof and confirms the Bitcoin block and its UTC time.
  3. See it independently: block #956074 · anchoring transaction (its OP_RETURN holds the commitment). The block's Timestamp is when it became permanent.

Note: Bitcoin anchoring lands ~30–60 min after sealing, and a block's timestamp is miner-set (approximate). So the exact “before kickoff” proof is the seal time above — timestamped instantly by Telegram/GitHub — while Bitcoin is the independent, un-forgeable anchor of permanence.