Pith Number

pith:46XMMNFP

pith:2019:46XMMNFPW5PEGIW5THJZSJVEE5

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Topological Analysis of Bitcoin's Lightning Network

D\'aniel A. Nagy, Istv\'an Andr\'as Seres, L\'aszl\'o Guly\'as, P\'eter Burcsi

arxiv:1901.04972 v3 · 2019-01-15 · cs.CY · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46XMMNFPW5PEGIW5THJZSJVEE5}

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:39.566207Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7aec634afb75e4322dd99d39926a42744f5ca1bd5045a86838d71203fa4bb64

Aliases

arxiv: 1901.04972 · arxiv_version: 1901.04972v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1901.04972 · pith_short_12: 46XMMNFPW5PE · pith_short_16: 46XMMNFPW5PEGIW5 · pith_short_8: 46XMMNFP

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/46XMMNFPW5PEGIW5THJZSJVEE5 \
  | 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: e7aec634afb75e4322dd99d39926a42744f5ca1bd5045a86838d71203fa4bb64

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d0c45f864ae09159452a6118298c91fa5d73696ad962d8d6e62a4f7284c8281",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2019-01-15T18:46:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07df44f5a67b54470bada757e0873f1ff1cd6af005d25a1d3b1a00a5419a2705"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1901.04972",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}