Pith Number

pith:MVZVSIXL

pith:2018:MVZVSIXLAC2HFA5BEOEBDFGYSB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Simple Object that Spans the Whole Consensus Hierarchy

Achour Most\'efaoui, Matthieu Perrin, Michel Raynal

arxiv:1802.00678 v1 · 2018-02-02 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MVZVSIXLAC2HFA5BEOEBDFGYSB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:32.617551Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65735922eb00b47283a123881194d89043b833655524c5e480c9be29d26e0ea5

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.00678 · arxiv_version: 1802.00678v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.00678 · pith_short_12: MVZVSIXLAC2H · pith_short_16: MVZVSIXLAC2HFA5B · pith_short_8: MVZVSIXL

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/MVZVSIXLAC2HFA5BEOEBDFGYSB \
  | 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: 65735922eb00b47283a123881194d89043b833655524c5e480c9be29d26e0ea5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0e9d8764844c9d08f47a5e6bc4d3db819c3b06ff208b111cbf60837a38e3df2e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-02T13:31:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f44303af0151fd66fbe8796534d78aa0af457cb6790ef5d56896160555f512a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.00678",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}