Initiate may refer to: The Initiate, a 1920 series of three occult books by Cyril Scott "The Initiate", a short story set in the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth collected in Four: A Divergent Coll
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 0xa2966250bee47b302c6c8a8d6df5d096e5638a371db88b53a23ed3f7007332ba. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954014 (2026-06-16T22:46:20Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/32032cd3-3729-4030-8a13-e530935824b4.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/32032cd3-3729-4030-8a13-e530935824b4.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).