Pith Number

pith:R6XHBKSX

pith:2018:R6XHBKSXSB7C45JL6MFHNC65W4

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Predicting the confirmation time of Bitcoin transactions

David Koops

arxiv:1809.10596 v1 · 2018-09-21 · cs.PF · cs.DC · math.PR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R6XHBKSXSB7C45JL6MFHNC65W4}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:49.006128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8fae70aa57907e2e752bf30a768bddb7147d65ec6f20b38db29ef26e8ddeef10

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.10596 · arxiv_version: 1809.10596v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.10596 · pith_short_12: R6XHBKSXSB7C · pith_short_16: R6XHBKSXSB7C45JL · pith_short_8: R6XHBKSX

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/R6XHBKSXSB7C45JL6MFHNC65W4 \
  | 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: 8fae70aa57907e2e752bf30a768bddb7147d65ec6f20b38db29ef26e8ddeef10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "68428c041c32cf2aee7e7a8cb65997f334c718f830af3dc50673045e0d67627c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "math.PR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PF",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-21T15:58:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7baf3c6996b2cf926a9503ec7d52d8c925710de051985566b94f8ebe3504cd61"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.10596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}