Pith Number

pith:BETVIKCY

pith:2015:BETVIKCYWZAWUF64AHQBLGALBN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Algorithm of Pipelined Gossiping

Chris Blondia, Vincenzo De Florio

arxiv:1504.03277 v1 · 2015-04-13 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BETVIKCYWZAWUF64AHQBLGALBN}

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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	2026-05-18T02:18:58.722086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0927542858b6416a17dc01e015980b0b440f0cce81f88e3e36feef64a7dde382

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.03277 · arxiv_version: 1504.03277v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.03277 · pith_short_12: BETVIKCYWZAW · pith_short_16: BETVIKCYWZAWUF64 · pith_short_8: BETVIKCY

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/BETVIKCYWZAWUF64AHQBLGALBN \
  | 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: 0927542858b6416a17dc01e015980b0b440f0cce81f88e3e36feef64a7dde382

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8c34b802043b69bb224907b07a3198d7c7d2d4893307d756e3e503db4970bd7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-13T17:59:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1778976e2d05de16938734763108022341cd27143169126af02f31c5367c371b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.03277",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}