Pith Number

pith:6MEII3QT

pith:2020:6MEII3QTSJ2Z44F6UIQM4OVUXV

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Flow: Separating Consensus and Compute -- Block Formation and Execution

Alexander Hentschel, Dieter Shirley, Layne Lafrance, Ramtin Seraj, Yahya Hassanzadeh-Nazarabadi

arxiv:2002.07403 v1 · 2020-02-18 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6MEII3QTSJ2Z44F6UIQM4OVUXV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:41:16.443681Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f308846e1392759e70bea220ce3ab4bd70de0e32a8566c5d77a8c00b9764c8a2

Aliases

arxiv: 2002.07403 · arxiv_version: 2002.07403v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2002.07403 · pith_short_12: 6MEII3QTSJ2Z · pith_short_16: 6MEII3QTSJ2Z44F6 · pith_short_8: 6MEII3QT

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/6MEII3QTSJ2Z44F6UIQM4OVUXV \
  | 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: f308846e1392759e70bea220ce3ab4bd70de0e32a8566c5d77a8c00b9764c8a2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba7c14b818af63666a8fca69d2a84d23a7cd51ac73e65c43d2e78ffd22e53613",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-02-18T06:48:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "081fb091937ad77901de3c0b1c64d854817da9d5241b7436aedf6252537ee3be"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2002.07403",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}