Pith Number

pith:FQPEPOQU

pith:2019:FQPEPOQUY3YAIN7CJZQ7SDWHGL

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Cryptocurrency Smart Contracts for Distributed Consensus of Public Randomness

James Shook, John Kelsey, Peter Mell

arxiv:1906.11011 v1 · 2019-06-26 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FQPEPOQUY3YAIN7CJZQ7SDWHGL}

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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	2026-05-17T23:42:10.276619Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c1e47ba14c6f00437e24e61f90ec732e493cd4dc0fc9445ce84326515f33c58

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.11011 · arxiv_version: 1906.11011v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.11011 · pith_short_12: FQPEPOQUY3YA · pith_short_16: FQPEPOQUY3YAIN7C · pith_short_8: FQPEPOQU

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/FQPEPOQUY3YAIN7CJZQ7SDWHGL \
  | 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: 2c1e47ba14c6f00437e24e61f90ec732e493cd4dc0fc9445ce84326515f33c58

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "52d79b45efa8616dc38513b75e740a069e1608b43b1aea41b81f98a96a9679fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-26T12:10:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2b6e1f55247e221ac46fe90bfa7a3b0bc7432ee2c7aacc982ce92aa0dc6fb91c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.11011",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}