Pith Number

pith:45WDUHT4

pith:2018:45WDUHT42ASZS547KPEJEBTYWP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to Make a Digital Currency on a Blockchain Stable

Kenji Saito, Mitsuru Iwamura

arxiv:1801.06771 v2 · 2018-01-21 · cs.CY

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45WDUHT42ASZS547KPEJEBTYWP}

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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	2026-05-17T23:46:04.329329Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e76c3a1e7cd02599779f53c8920678b3cfac13c915af71e1db75143a764ceaf6

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.06771 · arxiv_version: 1801.06771v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.06771 · pith_short_12: 45WDUHT42ASZ · pith_short_16: 45WDUHT42ASZS547 · pith_short_8: 45WDUHT4

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/45WDUHT42ASZS547KPEJEBTYWP \
  | 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: e76c3a1e7cd02599779f53c8920678b3cfac13c915af71e1db75143a764ceaf6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "054342be1bd533aff442f34bd9718047faa9a7f68a4f318d0cd7e7adb46a53c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-21T06:03:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bcb4cc8f66fb07b6f6097e0d7d453dfdb1e6e8b488a8262055ce7045a3c65220"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.06771",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}