Pith Number

pith:5I6QBEDO

pith:2016:5I6QBEDO2A6QLZV4XOCY3VYPLX

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On the Use of Computer Programs as Money

Ross D. King

arxiv:1608.00878 v1 · 2016-08-02 · q-fin.GN · cs.CY · q-fin.EC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5I6QBEDO2A6QLZV4XOCY3VYPLX}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:10:00.659127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea3d00906ed03d05e6bcbb858dd70f5dd81e4ab908e3b562bdaf70c7433e1e2f

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.00878 · arxiv_version: 1608.00878v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.00878 · pith_short_12: 5I6QBEDO2A6Q · pith_short_16: 5I6QBEDO2A6QLZV4 · pith_short_8: 5I6QBEDO

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/5I6QBEDO2A6QLZV4XOCY3VYPLX \
  | 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: ea3d00906ed03d05e6bcbb858dd70f5dd81e4ab908e3b562bdaf70c7433e1e2f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e42424553cd9f932fffaad7aa905170d37406fa1980309f750fe3c915270f435",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "q-fin.EC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-02T15:55:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f596d522a5e9333cdaf9ac2edada170bde2dc62d78b6628a4a1250e642e7bb71"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.00878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}