Pith Number

pith:QZV7C2QY

pith:2018:QZV7C2QYYMEOKDIYLR6RD5EFCF

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Blockchain and human episodic memory

Alok Kothari, Cody A Cushing, Hakwan Lau, Kunal Patel, Matthias Michel, Mouslim Cherkaoui, Rongjian Lan, Seong Hah Cho

arxiv:1811.02881 v3 · 2018-11-06 · cs.DC · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QZV7C2QYYMEOKDIYLR6RD5EFCF}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:48:31.661447Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

866bf16a18c308e50d185c7d11f48511415932e3301a27962ea1de541f04c909

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.02881 · arxiv_version: 1811.02881v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.02881 · pith_short_12: QZV7C2QYYMEO · pith_short_16: QZV7C2QYYMEOKDIY · pith_short_8: QZV7C2QY

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/QZV7C2QYYMEOKDIYLR6RD5EFCF \
  | 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: 866bf16a18c308e50d185c7d11f48511415932e3301a27962ea1de541f04c909

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0577f8d94bdb030ba41da486ce1e6491751cb6239c13248875d64e06a7290331",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-06T04:35:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e19985c145ef314a5bc7e39f4644ee0dd68d97811d7e35baf1532111de9ab36"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.02881",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}