Pith Number

pith:L22T3JPQ

pith:2015:L22T3JPQJNSPWQLWRV3V5JLUSF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sidecoin: a snapshot mechanism for bootstrapping a blockchain

Jack Peterson, Joseph Krug

arxiv:1501.01039 v1 · 2015-01-05 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L22T3JPQJNSPWQLWRV3V5JLUSF}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:00.394411Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5eb53da5f04b64fb41768d775ea574916efd66433af48cf1ba7c4c9653d2ad49

Aliases

arxiv: 1501.01039 · arxiv_version: 1501.01039v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1501.01039 · pith_short_12: L22T3JPQJNSP · pith_short_16: L22T3JPQJNSPWQLW · pith_short_8: L22T3JPQ

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/L22T3JPQJNSPWQLWRV3V5JLUSF \
  | 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: 5eb53da5f04b64fb41768d775ea574916efd66433af48cf1ba7c4c9653d2ad49

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2269f805572744cbf08babe6a04fe218980e9835e7f32d84e28e32c399267375",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-01-05T23:48:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b3930b0a1c0bda0885e90a37ff62bb96706719f26ff3922d0bdcc1ce02588bbf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1501.01039",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}