Pith Number

pith:BNRVUHGV

pith:2015:BNRVUHGVCMAPAD4X7YK5TA7TNQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bitcoin-NG: A Scalable Blockchain Protocol

Adem Efe Gencer, Emin Gun Sirer, Ittay Eyal, Robbert van Renesse

arxiv:1510.02037 v2 · 2015-10-07 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BNRVUHGVCMAPAD4X7YK5TA7TNQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:14.846847Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0b635a1cd51300f00f97fe15d983f36c2907dccf3748d0df7cb4b45384bd058c

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.02037 · arxiv_version: 1510.02037v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.02037 · pith_short_12: BNRVUHGVCMAP · pith_short_16: BNRVUHGVCMAPAD4X · pith_short_8: BNRVUHGV

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/BNRVUHGVCMAPAD4X7YK5TA7TNQ \
  | 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: 0b635a1cd51300f00f97fe15d983f36c2907dccf3748d0df7cb4b45384bd058c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2cfb7413cd18b5b341338d3e6f0abb2bef5233b8c4eb246923e9cf41295cb53",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-07T17:35:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d66433598cd49fedc1f467a8f0bf61da366d60198b0e2173ab2b7818c0b1594b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.02037",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}