Wystan Hugh Auden ( ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973The date on the death certificate; the 28 September date on his grave was an error.) was a British-American poet. Auden's poetry is noted for
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Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0xb677ac89a5f6f3b60ecfc41d8e861eb2a59edb5b384f3ac8e281aef607963414. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954346 (2026-06-19T03:51:26Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/934f15c3-eecb-4e63-b3f6-6ec0ed5aa621.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/934f15c3-eecb-4e63-b3f6-6ec0ed5aa621.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).
W. H. Auden Reads His Poems, Vol. 2 - The 1952 Caedmon Readings
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Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x252d11416e8d0dcd769b8f5c0b03635cc71b3cab98fb0795ad985cf6648e44ef. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 957120 (2026-07-08T03:22:41Z), 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/GBEJP1513407.
Dual-chain trust anchor. Chain 1 (CopyrightChains): CopyrightID 0x529d6859058aa617ac085acef3af80df6bca8f712a704b506e2e2e9ebe31f232. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 960427 (2026-07-31T15:59:18Z), 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/UK4WW1300011.
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 Note: an OTS proof may carry multiple Bitcoin attestations; OTSBitcoinBlock is the earliest confirmed one — a later attestation inside the proof corroborates it and is not a mismatch