Pith Number

pith:RUANLKGG

pith:2019:RUANLKGGLDDXCTE4SG2BVQOATE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bootstrapping a stable computation token

Jason Teutsch, Sami M\"akel\"a, Surya Bakshi

arxiv:1908.02946 v1 · 2019-08-08 · cs.CR · cs.GT · econ.TH

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RUANLKGGLDDXCTE4SG2BVQOATE}

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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	2026-07-04T23:52:25.200602Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d00d5a8c658c7714c9c91b41ac1c099261a4a68df38e2e26f207146509e6412

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.02946 · arxiv_version: 1908.02946v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.02946 · pith_short_12: RUANLKGGLDDX · pith_short_16: RUANLKGGLDDXCTE4 · pith_short_8: RUANLKGG

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/RUANLKGGLDDXCTE4SG2BVQOATE \
  | 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: 8d00d5a8c658c7714c9c91b41ac1c099261a4a68df38e2e26f207146509e6412

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea66bffcced52dfd43d0959b62feda00dc95faecd14e1b8bf91f60550afefeb2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "econ.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-08T06:41:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "489351edd427d9ae56e9e1112fb77ae7a9362348687d1efdbdb484ba5bf1664f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.02946",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}