Pith Number

pith:FA7AOYNO

pith:2018:FA7AOYNOMNE34ATBB7Y65LPSR4

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Cobalt: BFT Governance in Open Networks

Ethan MacBrough

arxiv:1802.07240 v1 · 2018-02-20 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FA7AOYNOMNE34ATBB7Y65LPSR4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:53.240351Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

283e0761ae6349be02610ff1eeadf28f299f46d645c57eb96196efdbb5493553

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.07240 · arxiv_version: 1802.07240v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.07240 · pith_short_12: FA7AOYNOMNE3 · pith_short_16: FA7AOYNOMNE34ATB · pith_short_8: FA7AOYNO

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/FA7AOYNOMNE34ATBB7Y65LPSR4 \
  | 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: 283e0761ae6349be02610ff1eeadf28f299f46d645c57eb96196efdbb5493553

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "615f8a8f7d4a7c09928ab49eb7973c551b85867026d98cbfb927cac3cf15e7c7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-20T18:37:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "70624b3a328f01dcfce690a9821ecde06093138533ca2f329aa4db92d8b929de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.07240",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}