Pith Number

pith:CSETF5FT

pith:2017:CSETF5FTBGZEQJPCZW5ABPQKGS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Obfuscation in Bitcoin: Techniques and Politics

Arvind Narayanan, Malte M\"oser

arxiv:1706.05432 v2 · 2017-06-16 · cs.CY · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CSETF5FTBGZEQJPCZW5ABPQKGS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:17.523036Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

148932f4b309b24825e2cdba00be0a348255c2361fba07d8fd24afa9f32ce22b

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.05432 · arxiv_version: 1706.05432v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.05432 · pith_short_12: CSETF5FTBGZE · pith_short_16: CSETF5FTBGZEQJPC · pith_short_8: CSETF5FT

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/CSETF5FTBGZEQJPCZW5ABPQKGS \
  | 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: 148932f4b309b24825e2cdba00be0a348255c2361fba07d8fd24afa9f32ce22b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f807dbba3f7c21952c25d4dc0745b70952b825250c5a47747d08b2f15a393f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-16T21:15:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f3a4cbbcdaf772280d9127f46eab0d98db238492eb7f016bd1dcc3cbdb3f8044"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.05432",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}