Pith Number

pith:2G6W7W7H

pith:2019:2G6W7W7HY5AY3NEEB7AYDAK5G7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Christopher Brown, Jason Teutsch, Vitalik Buterin

arxiv:1908.04295 v1 · 2019-08-12 · econ.TH · cs.CR · cs.GT

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2G6W7W7HY5AY3NEEB7AYDAK5G7}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T23:54:29.269117Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1bd6fdbe7c7418db4840fc181815d37c8d2370f7275ce013bbc6652026e8dd9

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.04295 · arxiv_version: 1908.04295v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.04295 · pith_short_12: 2G6W7W7HY5AY · pith_short_16: 2G6W7W7HY5AY3NEE · pith_short_8: 2G6W7W7H

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2G6W7W7HY5AY3NEEB7AYDAK5G7 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d1bd6fdbe7c7418db4840fc181815d37c8d2370f7275ce013bbc6652026e8dd9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bbab5e17087802f78d4f642c8eefab926cccded797bda3861dc0e27772dafabd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-12T04:30:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "248dbcff0cbbb672dc34fecafa41f9343aac21620ca5448872aea95acf447d5d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.04295",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}