Free Soul is the debut studio album by Canadian country music artist Madeline Merlo. It was released on April 29, 2016 via Open Road Recordings. The album includes the singles "Sinking Like a Stone",
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 0xf8e5d260afe6693f6713f2ba21cc83791cc106095b7378569e1163fb240d4c7a. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953600 (2026-06-14T06:45:44Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/0e599b7e-96b0-4374-a7fe-68ae433e2c85.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/0e599b7e-96b0-4374-a7fe-68ae433e2c85.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).