John Beno (November13, 1931December5, 2000) was a Catholic priest and Democratic Party politician from Colorado, U.S. He served two terms in the Colorado Senate, totaling eight years, from January 197
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 0x27abc1676e71ebf3c4762e1ff0a832a0a17060c4b11a911bf5b62f556a948ca1. Chain 2 (Bitcoin): anchored in block 953997 (2026-06-16T20:07:57Z). Bridge: the canonical record inside this Bitcoin proof contains the same CopyrightID. Verify: download https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/294f32a4-5a94-4b66-8f37-138ac9c7b42b.json and https://artists.proofprofile.net/proofs/artist/294f32a4-5a94-4b66-8f37-138ac9c7b42b.ots, run `ots verify -f record.json proof.ots` (https://opentimestamps.org).