The Judge may refer to: Literature The Judge, novel by Elia W. Peattie, 1889 The Judge, 1925 American translation of The Old Man (Gorky play), 1915 The Judge, novel by Rebecca West, 1922 The Ju
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 0xf2fd98904b379daf1b742a5a30638231d5525b731f84845c355cb2860580ab3d. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954342 (2026-06-19T03:22:39Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/8e9f3823-b72e-4ddf-9fa3-83da2d89c918.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/8e9f3823-b72e-4ddf-9fa3-83da2d89c918.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).