Pith Number

pith:3WAJFZX4

pith:2026:3WAJFZX4TSUCC7EMRI5WP7YYB2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Modeling Misinformation as a Commons Problem

Vrinda Malhotra

arxiv:2607.06984 v1 · 2026-07-08 · cs.CY · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3WAJFZX4TSUCC7EMRI5WP7YYB2}

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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	2026-07-09T01:20:11.661152Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd8092e6fc9ca8217c8c8a3b67ff180eb216ce43e80a015d8a45dedbf94a4e77

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.06984 · arxiv_version: 2607.06984v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.06984 · pith_short_12: 3WAJFZX4TSUC · pith_short_16: 3WAJFZX4TSUCC7EM · pith_short_8: 3WAJFZX4

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/3WAJFZX4TSUCC7EMRI5WP7YYB2 \
  | 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: dd8092e6fc9ca8217c8c8a3b67ff180eb216ce43e80a015d8a45dedbf94a4e77

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5c4dc66ddb0a76a177b806c0c8e7a2ad99976ec3eae7c30088a56c9dd14e6a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-08T04:11:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5757e3b6513bb1176e32253ae7a15fef37ce1f7480072d858ef23c3e1cc5d901"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.06984",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}