Richard Allen Dudley (birth name: Casper Bernard Kuhn Jr.) (April 22, 1915 – February 2, 2000) was an American radio and television announcer once known as "the voice of NBC". Paid death notice in The
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 0x86a5b225cd270a5da3853133655455b8d4b6a5c051a0d5d16ba866b9eca248b8. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954659 (2026-06-21T06:14:42Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/dd11836a-9b1b-46c9-b4b7-a9e1135113e0.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/dd11836a-9b1b-46c9-b4b7-a9e1135113e0.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).