Pith Number

pith:QSPX6IGN

pith:2025:QSPX6IGNNQFFGFDWEC4674BOGV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Two thousand years of the oracle problem. Insights from Ancient Delphi on the future of blockchain oracles

Giulio Caldarelli, Massimiliano Ornaghi

arxiv:2511.03319 v1 · 2025-11-05 · cs.CR · cs.CY · cs.IR · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QSPX6IGNNQFFGFDWEC4674BOGV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-22T01:03:49.138476Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

849f7f20cd6c0a53147620b9eff02e3554768c8fec8331710327da771ef95fdd

Aliases

arxiv: 2511.03319 · arxiv_version: 2511.03319v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2511.03319 · pith_short_12: QSPX6IGNNQFF · pith_short_16: QSPX6IGNNQFFGFDW · pith_short_8: QSPX6IGN

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/QSPX6IGNNQFFGFDWEC4674BOGV \
  | 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: 849f7f20cd6c0a53147620b9eff02e3554768c8fec8331710327da771ef95fdd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66521fd6057f16a80115c4ac09372c524b431058088d429a027b073fdab0d05d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-11-05T09:32:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c70ececa4770ce9459e3e22207b8a1db1c63edf52e39db900056c3a309d6a3b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2511.03319",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}