thumb|right|Mid-13th century aumbry at St Matthew's Church, Langford, Oxfordshire, England An ambry (or almery, aumbry; from the medieval form almarium, cf. Lat. armārium, "a place for keeping tools";
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 0x45ea171680c491e2f601f9cd34b2a37192af64a81b724fb12f12aaa0e7698c99. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953959 (2026-06-16T14:51:55Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/2767698c-846d-4461-82c3-a06add25550c.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/2767698c-846d-4461-82c3-a06add25550c.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).
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