Pith Number

pith:LDYM63PK

pith:2018:LDYM63PKORLJSIWDGAFZNXJHJH

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Split-Scale: Scaling Bitcoin by Partitioning the UTXO Space

Ankit Malik, Harsh Patel, Kaz{\i}m R{\i}fat \"Ozy{\i}lmaz

arxiv:1809.08473 v2 · 2018-09-22 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LDYM63PKORLJSIWDGAFZNXJHJH}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:42.864420Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58f0cf6dea74569922c3300b96dd2749c8aff31960c38380266d83320ed48aea

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.08473 · arxiv_version: 1809.08473v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.08473 · pith_short_12: LDYM63PKORLJ · pith_short_16: LDYM63PKORLJSIWD · pith_short_8: LDYM63PK

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/LDYM63PKORLJSIWDGAFZNXJHJH \
  | 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: 58f0cf6dea74569922c3300b96dd2749c8aff31960c38380266d83320ed48aea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fd8d15f9e8c009c39545229019cc40a85c09d72306e716a80d70a74d7685643e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-22T19:01:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "664f087ae789911a346a2a6624ad692641b368c952768178e44ce555850f0b7f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.08473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}