Eugene Michael McGuinness (born 11 August 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and frontman of Eugene + the Lizards. Music career McGuinness's first release, The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness
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 0x93edfc15e5644eae46d78d9f6d0d7515da884c9f9f6f245eac1460b83911538f. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953605 (2026-06-14T07:39:50Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/12048828-f22b-423b-8d5d-f6d5b05c6405.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/12048828-f22b-423b-8d5d-f6d5b05c6405.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).
The Early Learnings of Eugene McGuinness
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 0x8f5d0a10dd51dfb6f5b3b0d9512366bf959301b5f53c360fac495acb1086d187. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 956474 (2026-07-03T08:56:35Z), 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/GBCEL0700230.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x8a26ad25c50606e8085ec2e6c5a6cf9baef78bd19fa2c8174677daad2a917b04. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 956725 (2026-07-05T01:12:41Z), 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/GBCEL1100578.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x93cd61e04df07a2af00701c76050aa2d484573c3155012abf5d164136de2f153. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 956856 (2026-07-06T01:25:57Z), 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/GBCEL1200017.