Pith Number

pith:BVA7QWBM

pith:2018:BVA7QWBMPBOIQ7Z5SW4KM24MTM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimistic Execution in Key-Value Store

Aleksey Charapko, Duong Nguyen, Murat Demirbas, Sandeep Kulkarni

arxiv:1801.07319 v1 · 2018-01-22 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVA7QWBMPBOIQ7Z5SW4KM24MTM}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:13.125078Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d41f8582c785c887f3d95b8a66b8c9b0a06fc4dc03194d320b9912f8c3ef2f3

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.07319 · arxiv_version: 1801.07319v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.07319 · pith_short_12: BVA7QWBMPBOI · pith_short_16: BVA7QWBMPBOIQ7Z5 · pith_short_8: BVA7QWBM

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/BVA7QWBMPBOIQ7Z5SW4KM24MTM \
  | 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: 0d41f8582c785c887f3d95b8a66b8c9b0a06fc4dc03194d320b9912f8c3ef2f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "35b8d7ee1e9c9a03f8124be761fad308a0c6e2167528fba30fa98e42bb456b5c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-22T20:58:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "29bc1365a073825933545cae7807a82fe45042d48c532c8faf6e7db003a84070"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.07319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}