Terje Venaas (30 March 1947 – April 2025) was a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass), known from dozens of recordings and a number of international collaborations. Life and career Venaas started
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 0x71dfe20caed93234caa40af0723de05eb576fe09744b5b9dbb93009a9b3caf87. 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/8909e464-c32f-4e66-9ae2-fe794093c783.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/8909e464-c32f-4e66-9ae2-fe794093c783.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).
1. Confirm isrcCode identifies the recording in the pre-2022 source corpus and cc-db-prod record 2. GET OTSVerificationAPI → server-side canonical-record, hash, and attestation checks must pass 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. Confirm CopyrightID is the CopyrightChains transaction hash 5. If all match: the cc-db-prod record is independently anchored on Bitcoin at OTSTimestamp 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 0xfe9c5bc08f98aab6fedbcc1f0ef7b947670a0f00587723c5f55f2a0bf1835c75. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 957073 (2026-07-07T18:39:05Z), registered by our registry partner. The server verifies the private canonical record against OTSHash without exposing internal provider keys. Confirm the public ISRC, CopyrightID, and Bitcoin evidence via https://artists.proofprofile.net/api/v1/bot/ots/verify/track/NOUM71101844.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x03cc9259000c6d23cc8a7f92f6dcd8372c59798012548f0bfe49b29f725a6620. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 960254 (2026-07-30T12:06:10Z), registered by our registry partner. The server verifies the private canonical record against OTSHash without exposing internal provider keys. Confirm the public ISRC, CopyrightID, and Bitcoin evidence via https://artists.proofprofile.net/api/v1/bot/ots/verify/track/NOUM71101845.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0xc94341283c9344bc363e1a5c237de2c5b0a8c5deefc9c76e1b10bf7676b2e666. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 960340 (2026-07-31T03:15:04Z), registered by our registry partner. The server verifies the private canonical record against OTSHash without exposing internal provider keys. Confirm the public ISRC, CopyrightID, and Bitcoin evidence via https://artists.proofprofile.net/api/v1/bot/ots/verify/track/NOUM71101856.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x9f39508f76c57ae420c9e963d1603f7c41fe2792caf908cf5db9e6e605fdc05b. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 960183 (2026-07-30T01:10:20Z), registered by our registry partner. The server verifies the private canonical record against OTSHash without exposing internal provider keys. Confirm the public ISRC, CopyrightID, and Bitcoin evidence via https://artists.proofprofile.net/api/v1/bot/ots/verify/track/NOUM71101859.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0xe162f702a9367b7d3a21c66d8d9998b2b3d7a412a565b8d369e76abdf57a4f88. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953520 (2026-06-13T13:32:09Z), registered by our registry partner. The server verifies the private canonical record against OTSHash without exposing internal provider keys. Confirm the public ISRC, CopyrightID, and Bitcoin evidence via https://artists.proofprofile.net/api/v1/bot/ots/verify/track/NOUM71101858.