Pith Number

pith:RNJQUXZA

pith:2011:RNJQUXZAMXOG7OR6OKFNKQYWJS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Designing Practical Distributed Exchange for Online Communities

Jie Xu, Mihaela van der Schaar, William Zame

arxiv:1108.5871 v2 · 2011-08-30 · cs.GT

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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	2026-05-18T02:21:37.025158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b530a5f2065dc6fba3e728ad543164c992a16ba1908c25621f0df124c980681

Aliases

arxiv: 1108.5871 · arxiv_version: 1108.5871v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1108.5871 · pith_short_12: RNJQUXZAMXOG · pith_short_16: RNJQUXZAMXOG7OR6 · pith_short_8: RNJQUXZA

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/RNJQUXZAMXOG7OR6OKFNKQYWJS \
  | 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: 8b530a5f2065dc6fba3e728ad543164c992a16ba1908c25621f0df124c980681

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "159d58a396b8a2979492871cc50ae5c72eff7ae4ecc08e725a352f2bf3052c18",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-08-30T08:24:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3bf2f0a4208d0935bdf7492981629b6a8107f8c59f859727fe96df49094a8d68"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1108.5871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}