Pith Number

pith:LNBOOL3W

pith:2015:LNBOOL3WYNQT4EDJ7CY2GLPGZD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ISP-friendly Peer-assisted On-demand Streaming of Long Duration Content in BBC iPlayer

Andrew Secker, Dmytro Karamshuk, Jigna Chandaria, Nishanth Sastry

arxiv:1504.03536 v1 · 2015-04-14 · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LNBOOL3WYNQT4EDJ7CY2GLPGZD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:57:50.743334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5b42e72f76c3613e1069f8b1a32de6c8cfa241667a4c66d636c8224523298b0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.03536 · arxiv_version: 1504.03536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.03536 · pith_short_12: LNBOOL3WYNQT · pith_short_16: LNBOOL3WYNQT4EDJ · pith_short_8: LNBOOL3W

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/LNBOOL3WYNQT4EDJ7CY2GLPGZD \
  | 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: 5b42e72f76c3613e1069f8b1a32de6c8cfa241667a4c66d636c8224523298b0e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f6605f7c5dbabfb81bfaf40f8cfcc24c02625e4b7b7c60038f8edf0542ef2480",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-14T13:23:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "990e3e92d0f871f588c923550bb4be444bc04f2bf42c65cbbffb046304e03e07"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.03536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}