thumb|Hersey in 2024 Tricia Hersey is an American poet, performance artist, and activist best known as the founder of the organization The Nap Ministry. She refers to herself as the Nap Bishop and adv
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 0x417894b61a657a3a44d19e0ad6eb1492a29b87c755e287413b1a12dad7938185. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953741 (2026-06-15T04:44:49Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/9d2d5509-8e01-49a5-8cd2-50c201e38679.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/9d2d5509-8e01-49a5-8cd2-50c201e38679.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).