Pith Number

pith:MGDKEWT6

pith:2026:MGDKEWT6PHFCMCRN5OI6JUOQEU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Hidden Commitment Power is Powerless

Hongcheng Li

arxiv:2606.02769 v1 · 2026-06-01 · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MGDKEWT6PHFCMCRN5OI6JUOQEU}

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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	2026-06-03T01:05:21.326414Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6186a25a7e79ca260a2deb91e4d1d0252bc4ac81a533ef67a9badf6a8a52478b

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.02769 · arxiv_version: 2606.02769v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.02769 · pith_short_12: MGDKEWT6PHFC · pith_short_16: MGDKEWT6PHFCMCRN · pith_short_8: MGDKEWT6

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/MGDKEWT6PHFCMCRN5OI6JUOQEU \
  | 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: 6186a25a7e79ca260a2deb91e4d1d0252bc4ac81a533ef67a9badf6a8a52478b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "28190df3b1ef1e922f5d1c50d6e94e3088b8f2a000e9743c80bc6aa42c3d865c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "econ.TH",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T18:32:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e980e1470ab4aaeb73dbbafacb738f8be2ca6d9eb33f3d5a7937879464f02c0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.02769",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}