Had to Be

Recording by John Farrar.

Recording identifiers

ISRC
DEE479700267
CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)
0xa92b6256970898b25e33bb5f23d428162f0f8bb9dd97ab7c4885fb7d57b09c25

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp
2026-07-31T09:09:19Z
Bitcoin block
960376
Canonical record hash
sha256:e78deae8e5a98462b2309a9bd6ea7259e240355a877da88f47e16d5fb1370ef4

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.