Joseph William Foley JP (born c. 1821) was an Irish solicitor from Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin who briefly became a nationalist politician. His father William was from New Ross in County Wexford, an
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 0xb40469d2c14562e97f6944ac10ac5470a3df737d151d9ed9eeb18d66fa87c6b3. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953949 (2026-06-16T13:28:01Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1562b698-5df9-4f00-be42-ff85f58a2f97.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/1562b698-5df9-4f00-be42-ff85f58a2f97.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).