Alfred Bates (8 June 1944 – 17 December 2013) was a British Labour Party politician. Having unsuccessfully fought Northwich in 1970, Bates was first elected to the House of Commons in the February 19
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 0xc4e273bd92b0a108599d538282775e4bf2a36bd5019df51619f4678095aef656. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954342 (2026-06-19T03:22:39Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/91c4142e-0915-4e99-92a4-e03079c3fd13.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/91c4142e-0915-4e99-92a4-e03079c3fd13.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).