Pith Number

pith:DYF4YXCA

pith:2023:DYF4YXCADHOMF6JKDIOYZOQWGA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Patience ensures fairness

Andrew Mackenzie, Florian Brandl

arxiv:2311.06092 v3 · 2023-11-10 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DYF4YXCADHOMF6JKDIOYZOQWGA}

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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	2026-07-05T10:08:13.004576Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1e0bcc5c4019dcc2f92a1a1d8cba1630114438a87e390a6b3d54ee6dbfe764b3

Aliases

arxiv: 2311.06092 · arxiv_version: 2311.06092v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.06092 · pith_short_12: DYF4YXCADHOM · pith_short_16: DYF4YXCADHOMF6JK · pith_short_8: DYF4YXCA

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/DYF4YXCADHOMF6JKDIOYZOQWGA \
  | 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: 1e0bcc5c4019dcc2f92a1a1d8cba1630114438a87e390a6b3d54ee6dbfe764b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e996f669311603a073787a16d9d9b74cd84aeb49c8660bfd5b54b8119e96fe79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2023-11-10T14:46:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "86b36b82fc069797fdb3c5392df66218a1cfa456c5c1795c34af00a7001c92c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2311.06092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}