Edward Daniel "Ed" Skudder (born May 26, 1986) is an American animator, storyboard artist, filmmaker, musician, and voice actor. He is known for his work at Illumination as the head of story on the fi
1. Compute SHA-256 of OTSCanonicalRecord value → must equal OTSHash 2. Open OTSProofURL → extract Bitcoin block number → must equal OTSBitcoinBlock 3. GET OTSBitcoinBlockVerifyURL → returns the Bitcoin block hash at height OTSBitcoinBlock; GET https://blockstream.info/api/block/{that hash} → its timestamp must match OTSTimestamp 4. Read CopyrightID inside OTSCanonicalRecord → must equal the CopyrightID above 5. GET OTSVerificationAPI → pre-computed 6-check result from server 6. If all match: this entity was registered on CopyrightChains at OTSTimestamp, independently verifiable on Bitcoin Note: an OTS proof may carry multiple Bitcoin attestations; OTSBitcoinBlock is the earliest confirmed one — a later attestation inside the proof corroborates it and is not a mismatch
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0xc89a13249c16d397fbdf566ba5b04a98e0f4861a70e503e2d8369b224cd92c54. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953592 (2026-06-14T05:36:59Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/0590a827-9472-4be3-8b5f-bdd3912e25db.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/0590a827-9472-4be3-8b5f-bdd3912e25db.ots, the client at https://opentimestamps.org runs `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots`.