Pith Number

pith:ID456PAI

pith:2019:ID456PAICZEECRDFA77JTLABNK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Protocol for Asynchronous, Reliable, Secure and Efficient Consensus (PARSEC) Version 2.0

Andreas Fackler, Bartlomiej Kaminski, Fraser Hutchison, Pierre Chevalier, Qi Ma, Spandan Sharma, William J Buchanan

arxiv:1907.11445 v1 · 2019-07-26 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ID456PAICZEECRDFA77JTLABNK}

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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	2026-05-17T23:39:29.053436Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40f9df3c08164841446507fe99ac016aa61802a20b894a290908a1082d85f81b

Aliases

arxiv: 1907.11445 · arxiv_version: 1907.11445v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1907.11445 · pith_short_12: ID456PAICZEE · pith_short_16: ID456PAICZEECRDF · pith_short_8: ID456PAI

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/ID456PAICZEECRDFA77JTLABNK \
  | 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: 40f9df3c08164841446507fe99ac016aa61802a20b894a290908a1082d85f81b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbdf300c87809d95186c86d58bf79d72c8ae281b774f8510ee598e937f7d1da0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-07-26T09:14:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "88b13ddd2faff1ee941e2795b5f4276b5b140eacad3eab4bc9a68ee7ec2c0304"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1907.11445",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}