Carrie Louise Smith (August 25, 1925 – May 20, 2012) was an American blues and jazz singer. She was not well known in the United States but had a small following in Europe. Career Smith was born in F
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
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x0989b4bdaad56096f4d862b20b26aaf6d4889327c4cbdc9c426d45bf4dccace4. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953879 (2026-06-16T02:57:35Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/096271e8-5e28-488d-a859-8732f24f5af6.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/096271e8-5e28-488d-a859-8732f24f5af6.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).
When You're Down and Out (The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions)
Nice Jazz (Live at Nice "Grande Parade Jazz", 1978)
Gospel Time NYC 1982 (The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions)