Anecdotes of John Christopher Smith: Handel became blind, about this period Handel became blind

Recording identifiers

ISRC

DEQG42479058

Release date of the album this recording appears on

2024-09-02

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0xe5d64955f8a2c21aab7ee5a606c77e8a593edb103d4e5ce3ff73db68dc8a46ab

Copyright registration time

2026-07-06T20:32:59+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-08T03:20:19Z

Bitcoin block

957118

Canonical record hash

sha256:2657850a11b3be629c1c45e1a2ed419af5c3b1ad93a80ed19428856558a3bc05

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What this proof establishes

This recording was released in 2024. ProofProfile's artist catalogue derives from the pre-2022 AcousticBrainz and MusicBrainz source corpus, and this recording entered the record through cc-db-prod's ISRC-linked registration. Its provenance rests on the dates stated above rather than on the era of that source corpus.

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.

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