Pith Number

pith:EDV3WZYQ

pith:2017:EDV3WZYQZBFC5XLZP7FKEM4HAE

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A Cooperative Proof of Work Scheme for Distributed Consensus Protocols

Wouter Kuijper

arxiv:1711.11150 v1 · 2017-11-29 · cs.DS · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EDV3WZYQZBFC5XLZP7FKEM4HAE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:12.359145Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20ebbb6710c84a2edd797fcaa233870115512708956919071dd96d9c5fadc58b

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.11150 · arxiv_version: 1711.11150v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.11150 · pith_short_12: EDV3WZYQZBFC · pith_short_16: EDV3WZYQZBFC5XLZ · pith_short_8: EDV3WZYQ

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/EDV3WZYQZBFC5XLZP7FKEM4HAE \
  | 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: 20ebbb6710c84a2edd797fcaa233870115512708956919071dd96d9c5fadc58b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d91ce6436c3fecc9abd94fa9e4662d661c1ee53fd3b2d8e011b6511419f6c583",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-29T23:26:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ee50732e9270d574e90c51c98714dbd552c74896d87725c005f2f5bd1c33013"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.11150",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}