Anecdotes of John Christopher Smith: Smith replied, he could not be induced to believe

Recording identifiers

ISRC

DEQG42479066

Release date of the album this recording appears on

2024-09-02

CopyrightID (CopyrightChains transaction hash)

0x21544215f2c08f19f6a5fa653d80c97bee45964d6e15c820410500b5989623aa

Copyright registration time

2026-07-06T20:23:17+00:00

OpenTimestamps proof evidence

Bitcoin-attested timestamp

2026-07-08T03:20:19Z

Bitcoin block

957118

Canonical record hash

sha256:0ad5525b769fcfccac5dc7fbb094df3efd7be5925047f6801bd6d1bd9843a8b6

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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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