Pith Number

pith:BGFWVXTD

pith:2017:BGFWVXTDDHPO7AGKY5DUFG2ZH2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proof of Luck: an Efficient Blockchain Consensus Protocol

Howard Wu, Maxinder Kanwal, Mitar Milutinovic, Warren He

arxiv:1703.05435 v1 · 2017-03-16 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BGFWVXTDDHPO7AGKY5DUFG2ZH2}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:48:34.279489Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

098b6ade6319deef80cac747429b593eae198acb01873f595b54cc5a0685f506

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.05435 · arxiv_version: 1703.05435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.05435 · pith_short_12: BGFWVXTDDHPO · pith_short_16: BGFWVXTDDHPO7AGK · pith_short_8: BGFWVXTD

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/BGFWVXTDDHPO7AGKY5DUFG2ZH2 \
  | 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: 098b6ade6319deef80cac747429b593eae198acb01873f595b54cc5a0685f506

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1663d55e104a7e333ba31bb5cc9018fcce99444a454bba336add756bfbcd11b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-16T00:32:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b148e92c6429e648defed969b85d59df3f0b8e8623aeca8fcbd367696778f099"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.05435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}