Pith Number

pith:4EZLZSKA

pith:2026:4EZLZSKABCYZIC2QDIVMCZSDST

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Structured Payment in Pawnshop Borrowing: Mandates vs. Choice

Craig McIntosh, Enrique Seira, Francis J. DiTraglia, Isaac Meza, Joyce Sadka

arxiv:2608.13775 v1 · 2026-08-13 · econ.GN · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4EZLZSKABCYZIC2QDIVMCZSDST}

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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	2026-08-17T01:11:06.460531Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e132bcc94008b1940b501a2ac1664394dd10034006a94a0c269ac1efbc41ef60

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.13775 · arxiv_version: 2608.13775v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.13775 · pith_short_12: 4EZLZSKABCYZ · pith_short_16: 4EZLZSKABCYZIC2Q · pith_short_8: 4EZLZSKA

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/4EZLZSKABCYZIC2QDIVMCZSDST \
  | 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: e132bcc94008b1940b501a2ac1664394dd10034006a94a0c269ac1efbc41ef60

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2af826b587b2f44a36980d3617da78cd5c9ef186d64ed24a64a04991d7723c38",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-13T21:04:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e0534b20af570aa21d621a5826be2047f546eb4731a2197ae86040f4033007b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.13775",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}