Pith Number

pith:4DK5SOM2

pith:2017:4DK5SOM2CX6MG6KD7NB5ZDTBDI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Runtime Verification for Business Processes Utilizing the Bitcoin Blockchain

Christoph Hochreiner, Christoph Prybila, Ingo Weber, Stefan Schulte

arxiv:1706.04404 v2 · 2017-06-14 · cs.SE · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4DK5SOM2CX6MG6KD7NB5ZDTBDI}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-05-18T00:37:50.420538Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0d5d9399a15fcc37943fb43dc8e611a2443ec1be03e0715b685daeb9163d2b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.04404 · arxiv_version: 1706.04404v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.04404 · pith_short_12: 4DK5SOM2CX6M · pith_short_16: 4DK5SOM2CX6MG6KD · pith_short_8: 4DK5SOM2

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/4DK5SOM2CX6MG6KD7NB5ZDTBDI \
  | 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: e0d5d9399a15fcc37943fb43dc8e611a2443ec1be03e0715b685daeb9163d2b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe7e13211e67f42dead344652e77d8750bea4e1916b30bbf5f23c727c3d67710",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-14T10:53:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2955118a5c4765541c6c1751b8715e39091bfc7a0ed385d76611a8d6e3d06765"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.04404",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}