Pith Number

pith:AL5EXMEZ

pith:2019:AL5EXMEZ4WLMSEKIHCDZAIAKAG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Platypus: a Partially Synchronous Offchain Protocol for Blockchains

Alejandro Ranchal-Pedrosa, Vincent Gramoli

arxiv:1907.03730 v1 · 2019-07-08 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AL5EXMEZ4WLMSEKIHCDZAIAKAG}

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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	2026-05-17T23:41:13.929618Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02fa4bb099e596c91148388790200a01b17f5aceebce79742a7edf4a7528d222

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.03730 · arxiv_version: 1907.03730v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.03730 · pith_short_12: AL5EXMEZ4WLM · pith_short_16: AL5EXMEZ4WLMSEKI · pith_short_8: AL5EXMEZ

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/AL5EXMEZ4WLMSEKIHCDZAIAKAG \
  | 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: 02fa4bb099e596c91148388790200a01b17f5aceebce79742a7edf4a7528d222

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6192d7f614286c34f842b07451d2821915204c11a21cd26b53ba471938f68e1b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-08T17:22:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e257cff663c76cad25fe5ada375d22153367736c45cdd210a10ef77f5e0cd7ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.03730",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}