Benjamin Degen (born 1976) is an American painter based in New York City. Early life and education Benjamin Degen was born in Brooklyn, New York, to children's book author and illustrator Bruce Deg
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 0xbe4e89b2d12cc6b87820a0f28e1a42c8fef9ec5b8bfd1b510e04732fe82ea2db. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953724 (2026-06-15T01:43:13Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/8bd79c21-d048-437b-94b7-abce8abaf42b.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/8bd79c21-d048-437b-94b7-abce8abaf42b.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).