Gary Lakes (September 26, 1950 – November 11, 2025) was an American operatic heldentenor. Life and career Lakes was born in Woodward, Oklahoma, and raised in Irving, Texas. He was a high school foot
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 0xec448663874b8be57cf8a210ce4f95c60b15cc3c7204f413be56453847f69b50. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954784 (2026-06-22T02:53:59Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/fbb3c824-0c7e-42b8-9bf1-4f354a1743bc.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/fbb3c824-0c7e-42b8-9bf1-4f354a1743bc.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).