Pith Number

pith:DJVR7OOF

pith:2016:DJVR7OOF547KPLWGUBBYDDZUAQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics

Alex Pentland, Michael Macy, Peter M Krafft

arxiv:1611.00447 v1 · 2016-11-02 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DJVR7OOF547KPLWGUBBYDDZUAQ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:32.841250Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1a6b1fb9c5ef3ea7aec6a043818f3404041ca93bf506072476877fd164f21551

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.00447 · arxiv_version: 1611.00447v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.00447 · pith_short_12: DJVR7OOF547K · pith_short_16: DJVR7OOF547KPLWG · pith_short_8: DJVR7OOF

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/DJVR7OOF547KPLWGUBBYDDZUAQ \
  | 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: 1a6b1fb9c5ef3ea7aec6a043818f3404041ca93bf506072476877fd164f21551

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4f6671b4ae814c2a1451dc4d5c9c37fadb90df9a9ec61dc704968e08cb0d3b63",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.HC",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-02T02:31:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "65ae905513fcc142b0f5eddf575c8b6aa380230615ae4dc205b121e4893fb526"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.00447",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}