Pith Number

pith:OLTBG342

pith:2017:OLTBG3426V3ETBFLGCYTVHS72V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

An Explanation of Nakamoto's Analysis of Double-spend Attacks

A. Pinar Ozisik, Brian Neil Levine

arxiv:1701.03977 v1 · 2017-01-15 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OLTBG3426V3ETBFLGCYTVHS72V}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:52:48.250560Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

72e6136f9af5764984ab30b13a9e5fd55093b68a158c043df49cc30eab857d41

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.03977 · arxiv_version: 1701.03977v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.03977 · pith_short_12: OLTBG3426V3E · pith_short_16: OLTBG3426V3ETBFL · pith_short_8: OLTBG342

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OLTBG3426V3ETBFLGCYTVHS72V \
  | 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: 72e6136f9af5764984ab30b13a9e5fd55093b68a158c043df49cc30eab857d41

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb728e30e26f75ca785f11c13286b8fc9e63401be2e13f201c6bfcb72fb92129",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-15T00:49:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2bede98f7a72d73de3756a42c7e4b1f14fa219890f1879d2526d4b9f6956bf36"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.03977",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}