Pith Number

pith:QXVA3RN3

pith:2021:QXVA3RN3ES5CFZBI4IE4AA2DX3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Decentralization of Bitcoin: An Asset Perspective

Chunyan Miao, Feida Zhu, Huiwen Liu, Ling Cheng

arxiv:2105.07646 v1 · 2021-05-17 · cs.CR · cs.SI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QXVA3RN3ES5CFZBI4IE4AA2DX3}

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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

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:40:43.145375Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85ea0dc5bb24ba22e428e209c00343beff805e8299ac4db76f9b5193969866f6

Aliases

arxiv: 2105.07646 · arxiv_version: 2105.07646v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.07646 · pith_short_12: QXVA3RN3ES5C · pith_short_16: QXVA3RN3ES5CFZBI · pith_short_8: QXVA3RN3

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/QXVA3RN3ES5CFZBI4IE4AA2DX3 \
  | 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: 85ea0dc5bb24ba22e428e209c00343beff805e8299ac4db76f9b5193969866f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ce9839e1148747bd2dd0c9b0550868aedd936ed836be821764645106f898110b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2021-05-17T07:20:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0022f5d2cbdfd58c7406975342ae0462445a3d0179eae7c68aa5835374929912"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2105.07646",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}