The First Minute of a New Day is an album by American vocalist Gil Scott-Heron, keyboardist Brian Jackson, and the Midnight Band—an eight-piece musical ensemble. It was released in January 1975 on Ari
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 0x29c59723ffbc8ebaa0a75bf831b1b2e877f486c8ff3abcf728b3318e82c1c44b. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954063 (2026-06-17T07:49:29Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/47e361b4-6c29-4ff6-b150-38a3f09cfdf2.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/47e361b4-6c29-4ff6-b150-38a3f09cfdf2.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).