Portastatic is an American indie rock band founded in the early 1990s as a solo project of Mac McCaughan, singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Superchunk. The project has since expanded into a
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 0x62801621ed55e8a96f20e92247bb3fc258ffb7d70edfb6a1f84fe24dfc907b11. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953408 (2026-06-12T19:28:13Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/7d242f8e-6f8b-40d9-8ff0-90f466fd1322.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/7d242f8e-6f8b-40d9-8ff0-90f466fd1322.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
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x9c0875b9de323d987a5416282c812c7037f9932291647c6f6ab420368ad39b65. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 957554 (2026-07-11T10:39:45Z), 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/USMRG0519109.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0xdeebdfc65b6aa3a34c1504e554158a346af54395cb442dc214367c9d3f17432b. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 956397 (2026-07-02T21:02:00Z), 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/USMRG0519110.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x6d3ff65ee0c932799aaef9daf54ac0813d6a5c65cc5b4238063838d0b2a68dca. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 958383 (2026-07-17T08:20:01Z), 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/USMRG0519111.
Oh, Merge: A Merge Records 10 Year Anniversary Compilation
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x939b5e35035208efceafb6259bc26f5a5e8a1dc898456ff586ab7017f5e64037. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 957120 (2026-07-08T03:22:41Z), 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/USMRG0319051.
Old Enough to Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x0dee77448f990fdc03d7079be5c2bee04fd3843e7bab8855ff5e8489a520a02c. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 960368 (2026-07-31T08:26:41Z), 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/USMRG0319085.
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