Pith Number

pith:QSKNXFUW

pith:2014:QSKNXFUW2LJGYFRAUGV5BEMI5Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bitcoin Meets Strong Consistency

Christian Decker, Jochen Seidel, Roger Wattenhofer

arxiv:1412.7935 v1 · 2014-12-26 · cs.DC · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QSKNXFUW2LJGYFRAUGV5BEMI5Y}

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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	2026-05-18T02:30:24.659289Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8494db9696d2d26c1620a1abd09188ee226384e0fb718344a310cfd141ee3baa

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.7935 · arxiv_version: 1412.7935v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.7935 · pith_short_12: QSKNXFUW2LJG · pith_short_16: QSKNXFUW2LJGYFRA · pith_short_8: QSKNXFUW

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/QSKNXFUW2LJGYFRAUGV5BEMI5Y \
  | 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: 8494db9696d2d26c1620a1abd09188ee226384e0fb718344a310cfd141ee3baa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d7e84903f2c0e0d8a5ec7f0cbc7d9c3e79fe62cca5a013a3ec6dee821673a877",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-26T12:58:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd49f1b4d630ffeea9f9ff2b127d8d634ec9529886047479c687097243170772"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.7935",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}