Pith Number

pith:OETQUGMF

pith:2016:OETQUGMFI2M5GCX6Y7V6FN7PUB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Zero-Collateral Lotteries in Bitcoin and Ethereum

Andrew Miller, Iddo Bentov

arxiv:1612.05390 v3 · 2016-12-16 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OETQUGMFI2M5GCX6Y7V6FN7PUB}

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:54.336133Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

71270a19854699d30afec7ebe2b7efa0539dac67ab612d06ee443a590d838a45

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.05390 · arxiv_version: 1612.05390v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.05390 · pith_short_12: OETQUGMFI2M5 · pith_short_16: OETQUGMFI2M5GCX6 · pith_short_8: OETQUGMF

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/OETQUGMFI2M5GCX6Y7V6FN7PUB \
  | 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: 71270a19854699d30afec7ebe2b7efa0539dac67ab612d06ee443a590d838a45

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1655932ab53b88092dc6883a150c232fb998ad40348fd0422b3100794be94f7e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-16T08:11:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5c460b183f619bef46c29b4f8ed028f6f8128d42b749fcb62e2e3029e756af0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.05390",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}