Pith Number

pith:3BYRLH5O

pith:2016:3BYRLH5OPAIC77WKCCU3YJ2AL7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interactive Proof-of-stake

Alexander Chepurnoy

arxiv:1601.00275 v2 · 2016-01-03 · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3BYRLH5OPAIC77WKCCU3YJ2AL7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:23:07.564236Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d871159fae78102ffeca10a9bc27405fc766b2cf560089bc6b6ad8e1702ab0ab

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.00275 · arxiv_version: 1601.00275v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.00275 · pith_short_12: 3BYRLH5OPAIC · pith_short_16: 3BYRLH5OPAIC77WK · pith_short_8: 3BYRLH5O

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/3BYRLH5OPAIC77WKCCU3YJ2AL7 \
  | 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: d871159fae78102ffeca10a9bc27405fc766b2cf560089bc6b6ad8e1702ab0ab

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc70f7bdf971a65864b6f7f42c4056eaddb5d94502d8622869d1a97bde1c2788",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-03T10:42:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8446f18523d8f2d8cdf035354602b6a55cab782e924c6a777236dd2b4110e66e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.00275",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}