Etienne de Villiers is a South African investor and executive in global media and sports businesses. He is chairman of DataEQ, a leading South African opinion mining company. His former roles include
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 0xc418852fdd0cb502bbbaf57bb75afe08d1f237a054304d0c77bc41e40f0576a1. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953924 (2026-06-16T09:52:28Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1d000910-9451-44d8-95ca-b00b81163d41.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1d000910-9451-44d8-95ca-b00b81163d41.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 0xfcda42cafa8b019a3b6ed6367076fed0ee62c37bcd8199e1bf6fcb383e31532d. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 958228 (2026-07-16T02:46:47Z), 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/TCAIJ2452981.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x62640c0a277c9494470d7f091891b98cb038f9a7e21008501b01abde73f76e46. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 958095 (2026-07-15T04:30:08Z), 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/TCAJG2586145.