Pith Number

pith:A57AOTTV

pith:2018:A57AOTTVK7RXEIV6SXMYEHUHKA

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Understanding the Motivations, Challenges and Needs of Blockchain Software Developers: A Survey

Amiangshu Bosu, Anindya Iqbal, Partha Chakroborty, Rifat Shahriyar

arxiv:1811.04169 v2 · 2018-11-10 · cs.SE

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\pithnumber{A57AOTTVK7RXEIV6SXMYEHUHKA}

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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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First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:48.741927Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

077e074e7557e37222be95d9821e87503414af8a6329d5665863526f236a4d2e

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.04169 · arxiv_version: 1811.04169v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.04169 · pith_short_12: A57AOTTVK7RX · pith_short_16: A57AOTTVK7RXEIV6 · pith_short_8: A57AOTTV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A57AOTTVK7RXEIV6SXMYEHUHKA \
  | 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: 077e074e7557e37222be95d9821e87503414af8a6329d5665863526f236a4d2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e240c155000097e4be34f8bbe1e855ca7d9ebbb65113eb98a136b05027d3dd0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-10T01:08:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e83969c61ad454468385b8b23b3c481273313710f650c0fe36c8656d216a145"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.04169",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}