Pith Number

pith:4OMJZLA2

pith:2014:4OMJZLA2CZBAMDZRVLJTMWFIKD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bitcoin: a Money-like Informational Commodity

Jan A. Bergstra, Peter Weijland

arxiv:1402.4778 v1 · 2014-02-19 · 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{4OMJZLA2CZBAMDZRVLJTMWFIKD}

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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	2026-05-18T02:58:33.218591Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3989cac1a1642060f31aad33658a850d3da8b64c2b790d1ec3e333e08c0e8a8

Aliases

arxiv: 1402.4778 · arxiv_version: 1402.4778v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1402.4778 · pith_short_12: 4OMJZLA2CZBA · pith_short_16: 4OMJZLA2CZBAMDZR · pith_short_8: 4OMJZLA2

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/4OMJZLA2CZBAMDZRVLJTMWFIKD \
  | 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: e3989cac1a1642060f31aad33658a850d3da8b64c2b790d1ec3e333e08c0e8a8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "48cf396d0a81246e726926d09de38134d2fa32d07f60847c572d290f851f397e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-19T19:25:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5c2cf50861db337aca9e98e5b3849aaaaf947c68464163070f4cefea828d1780"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1402.4778",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}