Pith Number

pith:HVIQDGKJ

pith:2016:HVIQDGKJNTMW5JW5SF7BHJFP4N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Information, Impact, Ignorance, Illegality, Investing, and Inequality

Bruce Knuteson

arxiv:1612.06855 v3 · 2016-10-25 · q-fin.EC · q-fin.TR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HVIQDGKJNTMW5JW5SF7BHJFP4N}

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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	2026-05-18T00:23:46.018681Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3d510199496cd96ea6dd917e13a4afe34b91480a312e33ac09e8d4c844dddc6d

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.06855 · arxiv_version: 1612.06855v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.06855 · pith_short_12: HVIQDGKJNTMW · pith_short_16: HVIQDGKJNTMW5JW5 · pith_short_8: HVIQDGKJ

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/HVIQDGKJNTMW5JW5SF7BHJFP4N \
  | 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: 3d510199496cd96ea6dd917e13a4afe34b91480a312e33ac09e8d4c844dddc6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f15b6a318bd31eda1f6af0f8550eb4a78abb04eb37dd0fc092937ae721ce69fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.TR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.EC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-25T18:30:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "591a56a9ce424ccde4f7ae2610aade6f2aa3a66354e72dffa5a3a23b180b3c45"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.06855",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}