Joshua Jedidiah Watkins (born September 27, 1985) is an American politician and member of the Kentucky House of Representatives since January 2025. He represents Kentucky's 42nd House district, which
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 0xdb4fdcc73d2672f249a672f21b1b668256fbfee5e95c953ba5c7297feb8bd140. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954549 (2026-06-20T10:56:20Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/aa1f1412-e905-46ce-b85a-f42e91b26532.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/aa1f1412-e905-46ce-b85a-f42e91b26532.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).