Pith Number

pith:RTF2RBOO

pith:2018:RTF2RBOOV42FJP3FISGGJV52EM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

VAPOR: a Value-Centric Blockchain that is Scale-out, Decentralized, and Flexible by Design

Zekeriya Erkin, Zhijie Ren

arxiv:1810.12596 v2 · 2018-10-30 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RTF2RBOOV42FJP3FISGGJV52EM}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:18.852006Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ccba885ceaf3454bf65448c64d7ba232ce5c99de98a0d75f8b4c478878cef5b

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.12596 · arxiv_version: 1810.12596v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.12596 · pith_short_12: RTF2RBOOV42F · pith_short_16: RTF2RBOOV42FJP3F · pith_short_8: RTF2RBOO

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/RTF2RBOOV42FJP3FISGGJV52EM \
  | 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: 8ccba885ceaf3454bf65448c64d7ba232ce5c99de98a0d75f8b4c478878cef5b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2f683a571fa6899fb680fbb1044527d98f68c2cda8601c32f3fbc92f1585b9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-30T09:19:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be6b801460f553ea805e0f12ac257838bed16cca0942499eb24e4e2857ebf6f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.12596",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}