Pith Number

pith:3I7JWSOK

pith:2017:3I7JWSOKPONYKY3EAQWK5C4XNH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gossip in a Smartphone Peer-to-Peer Network

Calvin Newport

arxiv:1705.09609 v1 · 2017-05-26 · cs.DS · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3I7JWSOKPONYKY3EAQWK5C4XNH}

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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	2026-05-18T00:43:38.239937Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da3e9b49ca7b9b856364042cae8b9769dd91fefbfbe49f2fc04b657fb92f636d

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.09609 · arxiv_version: 1705.09609v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.09609 · pith_short_12: 3I7JWSOKPONY · pith_short_16: 3I7JWSOKPONYKY3E · pith_short_8: 3I7JWSOK

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/3I7JWSOKPONYKY3EAQWK5C4XNH \
  | 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: da3e9b49ca7b9b856364042cae8b9769dd91fefbfbe49f2fc04b657fb92f636d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "811ee3690857bdf9e2d74959f117c7737a9ffe6546b14fc3975aca441c8ca411",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-26T15:10:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6919d37bdd862c4d15c9a3b9e31cecb7b9faec25e11672d7f8ee497867b4d416"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.09609",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}