Pith Number

pith:DNKPSOSW

pith:2025:DNKPSOSWQLI3SQFLMBAQ6ITBI7

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Decentralization in PoS Blockchain Consensus: Quantification and Advancement

Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Shashank Motepalli

arxiv:2504.14351 v1 · 2025-04-19 · cs.DC · cs.CY · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DNKPSOSWQLI3SQFLMBAQ6ITBI7}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T10:51:42.206118Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1b54f93a5682d1b940ab60410f226147f5d3bdf612655f4af5ddbc064a5bd43b

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.14351 · arxiv_version: 2504.14351v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.14351 · pith_short_12: DNKPSOSWQLI3 · pith_short_16: DNKPSOSWQLI3SQFL · pith_short_8: DNKPSOSW

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/DNKPSOSWQLI3SQFLMBAQ6ITBI7 \
  | 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: 1b54f93a5682d1b940ab60410f226147f5d3bdf612655f4af5ddbc064a5bd43b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ebfb4dee87e56b5d6ffbfe35cc80ca3feec208f93330c85aa88f1e31d9f469c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-19T16:33:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e86ffdae72d94784b725bf9a901281d0c966d84421e9cb5a9cdae27a3006f18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.14351",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}