Pith Number

pith:4BURBQJI

pith:2016:4BURBQJI73OLS3KCSFXBQGWHHS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Blunt Honesty, Incentives, and Knowledge Exchange

Bruce Knuteson

arxiv:1602.06188 v1 · 2016-02-14 · q-fin.EC · physics.soc-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4BURBQJI73OLS3KCSFXBQGWHHS}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:18.441357Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e06910c128fedcb96d42916e181ac73cb2de82443065d9a71f0dd1956fcbe51a

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.06188 · arxiv_version: 1602.06188v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.06188 · pith_short_12: 4BURBQJI73OL · pith_short_16: 4BURBQJI73OLS3KC · pith_short_8: 4BURBQJI

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/4BURBQJI73OLS3KCSFXBQGWHHS \
  | 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: e06910c128fedcb96d42916e181ac73cb2de82443065d9a71f0dd1956fcbe51a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "15476d2e38a02efe497613a67dc7b1731ccca9676679d10f571f6c0593e7bc2a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-14T19:22:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee2e8914e9b05d7bd94fc887a3250d96810775c478bbd6d42d3b5c6a8dc8efb6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.06188",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}