Pith Number

pith:CVZTLYF4

pith:2015:CVZTLYF4CM4R6PEVBIL3NGF4BE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Centrally Banked Cryptocurrencies

George Danezis, Sarah Meiklejohn

arxiv:1505.06895 v2 · 2015-05-26 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CVZTLYF4CM4R6PEVBIL3NGF4BE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:24:08.507727Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

157335e0bc13391f3c950a17b698bc092ba157fccad55af03e3b32a59ffeaf7d

Aliases

arxiv: 1505.06895 · arxiv_version: 1505.06895v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1505.06895 · pith_short_12: CVZTLYF4CM4R · pith_short_16: CVZTLYF4CM4R6PEV · pith_short_8: CVZTLYF4

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/CVZTLYF4CM4R6PEVBIL3NGF4BE \
  | 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: 157335e0bc13391f3c950a17b698bc092ba157fccad55af03e3b32a59ffeaf7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8206bce9e8d865cda6e27948e8e55d80406952ced54c3d5690f953725acea48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-05-26T10:54:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3dbe46da6b7b92b3e0c83259f893439034e9ba02c95896d8a8cc7a2d90b35ad3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1505.06895",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}