Pith Number

pith:QSMIOGH2

pith:2017:QSMIOGH2JBKZDX7JY2RQWF7NLY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Implicit Consensus: Blockchain with Unbounded Throughput

Johan Pouwelse, Kelong Cong, Zekeriya Erkin, Zhijie Ren

arxiv:1705.11046 v3 · 2017-05-31 · cs.DC

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QSMIOGH2JBKZDX7JY2RQWF7NLY}

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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	2026-05-18T00:40:18.997770Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

84988718fa485591dfe9c6a30b17ed5e11b3fc890eee8fffb03a19d695bcc173

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.11046 · arxiv_version: 1705.11046v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.11046 · pith_short_12: QSMIOGH2JBKZ · pith_short_16: QSMIOGH2JBKZDX7J · pith_short_8: QSMIOGH2

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/QSMIOGH2JBKZDX7JY2RQWF7NLY \
  | 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: 84988718fa485591dfe9c6a30b17ed5e11b3fc890eee8fffb03a19d695bcc173

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "23f8ef59658dec65d6c7077ef5ad51c395d80e9ad225b2f139cd07a33ff40c01",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-31T11:54:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2dae9b2a3ecbc0749f86655a4a23e546be2e770b9899811098109262fac8398a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.11046",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}