4 the Cause were an R&B group from Oak Park, Illinois, United States, who were later based in Germany. The band consisted of the family members Shonna Edwards, Bennie Edwards, Reshonda Landfair and Ja
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 0xac79ed21cc8cd542fafe0e1fbfba731c447ab077571bfd77c61ffac0929f235c. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953407 (2026-06-12T19:24:56Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/f85ccee0-6c79-4d8b-aae0-ef772155b847.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/f85ccee0-6c79-4d8b-aae0-ef772155b847.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 0xcb48d133f7a220722423b5035ca4df9fddf93bad16608c0f886c1ee701865875. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 956656 (2026-07-04T14:03:39Z), 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/DEPI82101845.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x860af332ea4599ee9bbec1fe06b4217a184d0ad8e6060272aedf10f6e223bc41. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 958823 (2026-07-20T04:29:18Z), 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/DEPI82101844.