Ray "M" Franklin (7 May 1934 – 11 June 2017) was a major general in the United States Marine Corps who served as commanding general of the Marine Corps Research, Development and Acquisition Command.
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 0xc033365b6b5115aca899812b604863d0a2ee192484f1a60a55c8105a46933770. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953924 (2026-06-16T09:52:28Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1d9831ce-6de6-4c0f-b9ba-5de36f58b788.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1d9831ce-6de6-4c0f-b9ba-5de36f58b788.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).