Pith Number

pith:GXMSF3AQ

pith:2018:GXMSF3AQDMTIZ75YSH3KKN7KEH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Probabilistic Model of the Bitcoin Blockchain

Laura Wynter, Marc Jourdan, Pralhad Deshpande, Sebastien Blandin

arxiv:1812.05451 v1 · 2018-11-07 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GXMSF3AQDMTIZ75YSH3KKN7KEH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:20.185722Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

35d922ec101b268cffb891f6a537ea21d983018a1b65752820e9880a2780cfc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.05451 · arxiv_version: 1812.05451v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05451 · pith_short_12: GXMSF3AQDMTI · pith_short_16: GXMSF3AQDMTIZ75Y · pith_short_8: GXMSF3AQ

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/GXMSF3AQDMTIZ75YSH3KKN7KEH \
  | 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: 35d922ec101b268cffb891f6a537ea21d983018a1b65752820e9880a2780cfc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6610b7ab7d891bc657419c12eb29b08d52ba7e4d1a468a49a7e936f747706cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-07T02:35:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "373e05556517be23654b86e11f9f3387915365838360f69dc29cd6c6a52f619f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.05451",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}