John Hardy Was a Desperate Little Man (with Doc Watson)

Recording identifiers

ISRC

USG4X1300012

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x10570e5426e70fc2710e99de78848c23f944f6be6c797258c0e434185ce40f05

Copyright registration time

2026-07-22T11:39:35+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-22T12:33:25Z

Bitcoin block

959128

Canonical record hash

sha256:18e3816f8928be4cc03bc0afd5d0c55a6af0ba8e41c5e642d67c406abba9fdc4

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What this proof establishes

This recording belongs to ProofProfile's historical evidence base derived from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz corpus. ISRC is the stable recording-level bridge from that source corpus to the authoritative cc-db-prod track record.

CopyrightChains and Bitcoin OpenTimestamps make the exact committed record independently verifiable today. The cryptographic proof does not by itself establish authorship or ownership of the underlying recording.

Read the complete pre-generative-AI provenance and verification method.