Phinius Gage are an English underground skate punk/melodic hardcore band who started up in 2001. In 2015 they played a reunion tour and announced in 2024 they had reformed. The band's first new music
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 0x6e53b055148e8a21ec46ac796c97795331e852e2020f56ae05c4f69fc126e32d. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954066 (2026-06-17T08:11:48Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/520bdefe-f1e5-4674-b084-27667688b907.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/520bdefe-f1e5-4674-b084-27667688b907.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).
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