Michael Anthony LePond III (born 1966), is an American musician from Newark, New Jersey. LePond has recorded over 40 albums with various bands and has appeared on over 20 other albums in a guest capac
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 0xd4a5a70cf00cda47117d85f0a4256fc7c85c35895a2ce90625d1867645df9677. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953886 (2026-06-16T04:37:45Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/0c6c9b72-08c3-4ad2-a7aa-3bd5e74c3e15.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/0c6c9b72-08c3-4ad2-a7aa-3bd5e74c3e15.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).