thumb|A 14th-century depiction of the 13th-century German knight Hartmann von Aue, from the Codex Manesse A knight is a person granted an honorary title of a knighthood by a head of state (including
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 0xa9f603b2ff4d7f4cea1a8b4e0d1bad03d8f332d49732907cfd9e503f668460f8. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953915 (2026-06-16T08:36:32Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/193a4411-c7f8-4b60-8c33-8bde7fed277f.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/193a4411-c7f8-4b60-8c33-8bde7fed277f.ots, the client at https://opentimestamps.org runs `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots`.
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 0xde7f94383a29e0a46954ebcc9c8e7a0dcc4320c69f1288c126376bca50cb0905. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 956375 (2026-07-02T16:51:38Z), 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 at https://artists.proofprofile.net/api/v1/bot/ots/verify/track/AUMEV2240128 — a six-check JSON result.