Pith Number

pith:BL5HB5KU

pith:2022:BL5HB5KULYLALDKWDAYYNIEOFE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Will Metaverse be NextG Internet? Vision, Hype, and Reality

Bo Han, Nan Wu, Ruizhi Cheng, Songqing Chen

arxiv:2201.12894 v2 · 2022-01-30 · cs.NI · cs.MM · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BL5HB5KULYLALDKWDAYYNIEOFE}

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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	2026-07-05T05:35:42.955938Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0afa70f5545e16058d56183186a08e292042149ddb642253003f1fc68b9f2d02

Aliases

arxiv: 2201.12894 · arxiv_version: 2201.12894v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2201.12894 · pith_short_12: BL5HB5KULYLA · pith_short_16: BL5HB5KULYLALDKW · pith_short_8: BL5HB5KU

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/BL5HB5KULYLALDKWDAYYNIEOFE \
  | 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: 0afa70f5545e16058d56183186a08e292042149ddb642253003f1fc68b9f2d02

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c94c53f2347ec1c8002f9a7c51209d10dd4bf04c53f82fcf24ab34f4d81dfe96",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.MM",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2022-01-30T19:04:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b656f27fa37dfed34936252b2aa4cfaccd942b39268b75fdba65db297dd19813"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2201.12894",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}