Pith Number

pith:Q6CEZX3S

pith:2018:Q6CEZX3SP2ZDPPPZBZJBIABHTS

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A Predictable Incentive Mechanism for TrueBit

Christian Reitwiessner, Julia Koch

arxiv:1806.11476 v1 · 2018-06-29 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q6CEZX3SP2ZDPPPZBZJBIABHTS}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:12:01.765461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

87844cdf727eb237bdf90e521400279cace869535e172dc2db626525adc2e473

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.11476 · arxiv_version: 1806.11476v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.11476 · pith_short_12: Q6CEZX3SP2ZD · pith_short_16: Q6CEZX3SP2ZDPPPZ · pith_short_8: Q6CEZX3S

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/Q6CEZX3SP2ZDPPPZBZJBIABHTS \
  | 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: 87844cdf727eb237bdf90e521400279cace869535e172dc2db626525adc2e473

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0b22b3704ab0168e2f3b4a5b425335316b63f8eed1f939a1bc0e98e9c60443dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-29T15:34:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47cec311d3d40ba1e51c8ba3a201c6e0f6ccc31cfe9ab5e9c87d7b231d5f6317"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.11476",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}