Pith Number

pith:P7LGTWBR

pith:2021:P7LGTWBRZPXL3VAZKOKQUOXUBY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Who Needs Consensus? A Distributed Monetary System Between Rational Agents via Hearsay

Robert Streit, Vijay Garg, Yanni Georghiades

arxiv:2104.07574 v1 · 2021-04-15 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P7LGTWBRZPXL3VAZKOKQUOXUBY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T02:32:29.676679Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7fd669d831cbeebdd41953950a3af40e0c7981e38859374e53f22abaf25c9944

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.07574 · arxiv_version: 2104.07574v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.07574 · pith_short_12: P7LGTWBRZPXL · pith_short_16: P7LGTWBRZPXL3VAZ · pith_short_8: P7LGTWBR

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/P7LGTWBRZPXL3VAZKOKQUOXUBY \
  | 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: 7fd669d831cbeebdd41953950a3af40e0c7981e38859374e53f22abaf25c9944

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be2f402c23c7997c6fda48290f94bf973f873cd4d51ae90e32e5d95f0232dfd9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-15T16:28:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ee2f1c0b4148cda62272eb0b309e07eec21d2d165e8f2d9e5c617d4885fe9e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2104.07574",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}