Pith Number

pith:KVB7W5RN

pith:2019:KVB7W5RNU5RNJRROGQUTQB5ML7

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Using Blockchain to Rein in The New Post-Truth World and Check The Spread of Fake News

Adnan Qayyum, Falak Sher, Junaid Qadir, Muhammad Umar Janjua

arxiv:1903.11899 v1 · 2019-03-28 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KVB7W5RNU5RNJRROGQUTQB5ML7}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:58.752954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5543fb762da762d4c62e34293807ac5fe8d36726933f87969f21a519fa33763b

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.11899 · arxiv_version: 1903.11899v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.11899 · pith_short_12: KVB7W5RNU5RN · pith_short_16: KVB7W5RNU5RNJRRO · pith_short_8: KVB7W5RN

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/KVB7W5RNU5RNJRROGQUTQB5ML7 \
  | 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: 5543fb762da762d4c62e34293807ac5fe8d36726933f87969f21a519fa33763b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bc6548bce27383a35e550264e8c52d9b8593b15cebbbc178355d186869cdaa9f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-28T11:24:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3cb939f18bc0710fe0f6a352fc2aa4c69d6d04eb2aa77cc1550af64cecdfa6cf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.11899",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}