Laura Ries is a co-founder, with her father Al Ries, of Ries & Ries, an advertising/marketing strategy consultancy firm. She has also written several books in the field of Marketing. Career Laura Ri
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 0x948b2148d57ad711987af539d542f631a8f4685fcf97dcb5c065354dae653254. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 954346 (2026-06-19T03:51:26Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/9af6d7ea-79d3-4142-b734-db93063155a8.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/9af6d7ea-79d3-4142-b734-db93063155a8.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).