Pith Number

pith:Q3VKC23P

pith:2026:Q3VKC23P5OOBZK3YJXWLY3I7AA

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Central Bank Digital Currencies: Where is the Privacy, Technology, and Anonymity?

Andrea Pinto, Jeff Nijsse

arxiv:2602.23659 v2 · 2026-02-27 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q3VKC23P5OOBZK3YJXWLY3I7AA}

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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	2026-07-20T01:18:27.929941Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

86eaa16b6feb9c1cab784decbc6d1f002322a95e9400a8a3c7da2a7cc6ee56f3

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.23659 · arxiv_version: 2602.23659v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.23659 · pith_short_12: Q3VKC23P5OOB · pith_short_16: Q3VKC23P5OOBZK3Y · pith_short_8: Q3VKC23P

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/Q3VKC23P5OOBZK3YJXWLY3I7AA \
  | 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: 86eaa16b6feb9c1cab784decbc6d1f002322a95e9400a8a3c7da2a7cc6ee56f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a2f1a3779c2fd625dbdff53862a7c28b3627f957922322919a5ffedc877cca0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-27T03:56:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4752654731c2c61fe2ea5c43fd24d9f5efeffc6b540f11e4ae6fe250a77d7efb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.23659",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}