Eric Sheppard (born 1 October 1950) is a British and American geographer, currently Distinguished Research Professor of Economic geography at UCLA. Background Sheppard grew up in Cambridge, England,
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 0x32e5cec01b90d168ed13a00d7d6d5d673857280f5c4b1226b33f8abe7eae800f. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953976 (2026-06-16T16:55:36Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/2bdf6411-c5e1-4b71-8c79-76b477023e0b.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/2bdf6411-c5e1-4b71-8c79-76b477023e0b.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 0x9b9558351c3679e52e88ebe3d8f3f3059f5e2f9c3dedc9db4799425badf7dd89. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 959159 (2026-07-22T17:48:40Z), 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/QZMEM2221097.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x938b9b2e2728d841a8bcc482f5575dc2f406862cd3b8ec1fe76f4e7fe2b32760. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 959155 (2026-07-22T16:43:41Z), 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/QZMEM2221094.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x45d3b4bb14188ba1f0de7d8a9f9a193638787372827966c3f7725e8a4e22136d. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 960108 (2026-07-29T13:09:35Z), 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/USDY42103175.