Pith Number

pith:BV5PKTOM

pith:1998:BV5PKTOME7FEIS3G3MQVEHWTOJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Beth Duff, Don Slutz, George Lee, Greg Smith, Guru Raghavendran, Hedy Rossmeissl, Jim Gray, John Hoffman, John Nordlinger, Natt Robb III, Phil Smoot, Randall Sunne, Robert Eberl, Theresa Mathesmier, Tom Barclay

arxiv:cs/9809011 v1 · 1998-09-05 · cs.DB · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BV5PKTOME7FEIS3G3MQVEHWTOJ}

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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	2026-07-04T14:25:05.951705Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d7af54dcc27ca444b66db21521ed37257c6141c06e7e19b447a22fab7be81f5

Aliases

arxiv: cs/9809011 · arxiv_version: cs/9809011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/9809011 · pith_short_12: BV5PKTOME7FE · pith_short_16: BV5PKTOME7FEIS3G · pith_short_8: BV5PKTOM

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/BV5PKTOME7FEIS3G3MQVEHWTOJ \
  | 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: 0d7af54dcc27ca444b66db21521ed37257c6141c06e7e19b447a22fab7be81f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2960ca5921a1260d5ea448f177aee949b6a041a1cbf224feb6937889410755bd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "1998-09-05T00:29:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ad538f3a3ec81ff6232531ae420e4007002eb7711298097cb292d38824e68b3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/9809011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}