Pith Number

pith:ES6O26NF

pith:2013:ES6O26NFIQMFVGCJKGY7M74LF7

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Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable

Emin Gun Sirer, Ittay Eyal

arxiv:1311.0243 v5 · 2013-11-01 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ES6O26NFIQMFVGCJKGY7M74LF7}

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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	2026-05-18T03:07:03.464229Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

24bced79a544185a984951b1f67f8b2ffc2fac8df45c0d6cf5eccd3f2b7688e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.0243 · arxiv_version: 1311.0243v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.0243 · pith_short_12: ES6O26NFIQMF · pith_short_16: ES6O26NFIQMFVGCJ · pith_short_8: ES6O26NF

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/ES6O26NFIQMFVGCJKGY7M74LF7 \
  | 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: 24bced79a544185a984951b1f67f8b2ffc2fac8df45c0d6cf5eccd3f2b7688e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95ef0b5621e406657bc9f40f26404bb26a1c946f25f79d31200126b177e54ecf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-01T18:15:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0769df6e524e152e7b635fff9ae86c0ee65733218b8e96569625a2c91b6cc849"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.0243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}