Pith Number

pith:5VA6TTLB

pith:2026:5VA6TTLBAHVG7IVBJNBOJD5PB2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Targeting Without Transfers

Filip Tokarski

arxiv:2602.00487 v3 · 2026-01-31 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VA6TTLBAHVG7IVBJNBOJD5PB2}

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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	2026-05-26T01:03:24.038767Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed41e9cd6101ea6fa2a14b42e48faf0e9db0dfe5d4022530b0da98222774c165

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.00487 · arxiv_version: 2602.00487v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.00487 · pith_short_12: 5VA6TTLBAHVG · pith_short_16: 5VA6TTLBAHVG7IVB · pith_short_8: 5VA6TTLB

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/5VA6TTLBAHVG7IVBJNBOJD5PB2 \
  | 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: ed41e9cd6101ea6fa2a14b42e48faf0e9db0dfe5d4022530b0da98222774c165

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "39fe44aa74448282e7562134ee034c25c7026cdce93472fa1b058c530ada464c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-01-31T03:16:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "905ab043e43ab5caf8e3524a52a4c5de8067a49d6c9aac16554d43627dbfdd79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.00487",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}