Chris Beckett (born 1955) is a British social worker, university lecturer, and science fiction author. He has written several textbooks, dozens of short stories, and six novels. Background Beckett wa
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 0x82416cef5bb34f7aef338d0db99dffb67b6d8b0de6b07c44957fb383b9ca0b90. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953968 (2026-06-16T16:01:49Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/294a9bde-0c02-47f9-aed9-fb40e1b161fc.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/294a9bde-0c02-47f9-aed9-fb40e1b161fc.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).