Steve Berman is an American editor, novelist and short story writer. He writes in the field of queer speculative fiction. Early life and education Berman was born in Philadelphia, and raised in South
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 0x54bb112fb8aef75ebc7ae9bdeada0ac955806b186cc2be0eefe51e311d7b75a4. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953407 (2026-06-12T19:24:56Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1c7880e0-1ff6-43fa-a953-47920cace852.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1c7880e0-1ff6-43fa-a953-47920cace852.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).