Pith Number

pith:6U5CYKVG

pith:2018:6U5CYKVGRQOLAQ2NB34BSYOCKD

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Davide Frey, Fran\c{c}ois Ta\"iani, Marc X. Makkes, Pierre-Louis Roman, Spyros Voulgaris

arxiv:1803.10494 v1 · 2018-03-28 · cs.DC · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6U5CYKVGRQOLAQ2NB34BSYOCKD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:19:55.165497Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f53a2c2aa68c1cb0434d0ef81961c250e158103a81cb24d00f3f7e1eff97a011

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.10494 · arxiv_version: 1803.10494v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.10494 · pith_short_12: 6U5CYKVGRQOL · pith_short_16: 6U5CYKVGRQOLAQ2N · pith_short_8: 6U5CYKVG

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/6U5CYKVGRQOLAQ2NB34BSYOCKD \
  | 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: f53a2c2aa68c1cb0434d0ef81961c250e158103a81cb24d00f3f7e1eff97a011

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3630bf69b1c3a94bf496b617e0d39de14f5bb292d0c988bcdd64599af3f0e73",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-28T09:54:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4215bf109e44c1934332845a51ad26b7d78cc4a04daba88a012ec57ee8852e3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.10494",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}