Pith Number

pith:EPATPMBS

pith:2019:EPATPMBSUJM6OILMGRT5ST5UIU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Nakamoto Consensus with Verifiable Delay Puzzle

Jieyi Long

arxiv:1908.06394 v5 · 2019-08-18 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EPATPMBSUJM6OILMGRT5ST5UIU}

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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	2026-07-05T02:59:01.250177Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23c137b032a259e7216c3467d94fb445070bcea78942af0c6f8dffcca1f522c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.06394 · arxiv_version: 1908.06394v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.06394 · pith_short_12: EPATPMBSUJM6 · pith_short_16: EPATPMBSUJM6OILM · pith_short_8: EPATPMBS

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/EPATPMBSUJM6OILMGRT5ST5UIU \
  | 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: 23c137b032a259e7216c3467d94fb445070bcea78942af0c6f8dffcca1f522c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6f2ffa010867c2a6999dcaffc70f68da3509bb3d10a7403df03ce5050a73c578",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-18T08:11:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a100911e01ad14709ab22f258e2698f9f68d39ca2613c2440de98973f5f67f63"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.06394",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}