Pith Number

pith:NM5YTAAW

pith:2018:NM5YTAAWOADVBST33QC6TJNUXZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Analysis of Difficulty Control in Bitcoin and Proof-of-Work Blockchains

A. S. Morse, Daniel Fullmer

arxiv:1812.10792 v1 · 2018-12-27 · cs.CR · math.OC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NM5YTAAWOADVBST33QC6TJNUXZ}

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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	2026-05-17T23:57:19.956560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6b3b898016700750ca7bdc05e9a5b4be50ab2ba51a7cc26639c7fd6f6bd41346

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.10792 · arxiv_version: 1812.10792v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.10792 · pith_short_12: NM5YTAAWOADV · pith_short_16: NM5YTAAWOADVBST3 · pith_short_8: NM5YTAAW

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/NM5YTAAWOADVBST33QC6TJNUXZ \
  | 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: 6b3b898016700750ca7bdc05e9a5b4be50ab2ba51a7cc26639c7fd6f6bd41346

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73fc2400b93f6b6deed130e70d6ea7b41f137f80775dd797f73cfca484648468",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-27T18:42:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f79e1f21f4bf06f360c17fcaa25cd2949e11f0c0e7656fd8bbc592659506edb3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.10792",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}