Pith Number

pith:B6SAZADI

pith:2018:B6SAZADIDMWIHWOG4KGIQHP2I6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Web of Blocks

Andrew C. Myers, Isaac Sheff, Robbert van Renesse, Xinwen Wang

arxiv:1806.06978 v1 · 2018-06-18 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6SAZADIDMWIHWOG4KGIQHP2I6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:57.867772Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0fa40c80681b2c83d9c6e28c881dfa47a322717898f2d4ed06f905e97729b2b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.06978 · arxiv_version: 1806.06978v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.06978 · pith_short_12: B6SAZADIDMWI · pith_short_16: B6SAZADIDMWIHWOG · pith_short_8: B6SAZADI

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/B6SAZADIDMWIHWOG4KGIQHP2I6 \
  | 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: 0fa40c80681b2c83d9c6e28c881dfa47a322717898f2d4ed06f905e97729b2b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d69f68bebe1c8edaf6115ca1dc9d41166f203985265361b8c41cadd0f816a802",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-18T23:01:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8f0e2c9742de15767a0bcad262ae895cfe52f7e478e3a903d828301ad36b195"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.06978",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}