Pith Number

pith:BZBEEC4W

pith:2018:BZBEEC4WGTNGY7ZSGSAVLN5MUP

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Towards Secure and Efficient Payment Channels

Felix Laufenberg, Georgia Avarikioti, Jakub Sliwinski, Roger Wattenhofer, Yuyi Wang

arxiv:1811.12740 v1 · 2018-11-30 · cs.CR · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BZBEEC4WGTNGY7ZSGSAVLN5MUP}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:28.632018Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e42420b9634da6c7f32348155b7aca3eab1df917e08d459c18c80dd69002502

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.12740 · arxiv_version: 1811.12740v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12740 · pith_short_12: BZBEEC4WGTNG · pith_short_16: BZBEEC4WGTNGY7ZS · pith_short_8: BZBEEC4W

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/BZBEEC4WGTNGY7ZSGSAVLN5MUP \
  | 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: 0e42420b9634da6c7f32348155b7aca3eab1df917e08d459c18c80dd69002502

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "63ec00ba2eab3bb8c2d2360408594c73b29771041bb98256758fc916605d3d81",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-30T11:45:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "637493089c97cbef3e4d1bf37fe882292eafb5589e9aa8db6e87e291349a6557"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.12740",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}