Pith Number

pith:5YGYFA64

pith:2018:5YGYFA64DODOQJTMMMLTT6NWRZ

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This One Simple Trick Disrupts Digital Communities

Aaron Dant, Philip Feldman, Wayne Lutters

arxiv:1804.02251 v2 · 2018-04-06 · cs.MA · cs.CY · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5YGYFA64DODOQJTMMMLTT6NWRZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:50:34.146680Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ee0d8283dc1b86e8266c631739f9b68e5c2651fde58ddb90ab2f1c3e020a6f79

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.02251 · arxiv_version: 1804.02251v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.02251 · pith_short_12: 5YGYFA64DODO · pith_short_16: 5YGYFA64DODOQJTM · pith_short_8: 5YGYFA64

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/5YGYFA64DODOQJTMMMLTT6NWRZ \
  | 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: ee0d8283dc1b86e8266c631739f9b68e5c2651fde58ddb90ab2f1c3e020a6f79

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e099b65345839bbb08b600eee936849bb15bb79b9a6d8e1c8f87b897cb32e417",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MA",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-06T13:17:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e4cd833aac487ae92040ed370b8725145fb5d09491ba2c9f211b3b7ca9462238"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.02251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}