Pith Number

pith:RZ57OAJS

pith:2021:RZ57OAJSZFQHKJW4LI4R7SFJC4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Limitlessly Scalable Transaction System

Jakub Sliwinski, Max Mathys, Roger Wattenhofer, Roland Schmid

arxiv:2108.05236 v1 · 2021-08-11 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZ57OAJSZFQHKJW4LI4R7SFJC4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T03:05:07.952048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e7bf70132c9607526dc5a391fc8a917129ce8a604229a2026abeb36636c5b2e

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.05236 · arxiv_version: 2108.05236v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.05236 · pith_short_12: RZ57OAJSZFQH · pith_short_16: RZ57OAJSZFQHKJW4 · pith_short_8: RZ57OAJS

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/RZ57OAJSZFQHKJW4LI4R7SFJC4 \
  | 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: 8e7bf70132c9607526dc5a391fc8a917129ce8a604229a2026abeb36636c5b2e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b7e84bc9ce2398316fae4046e09edb50e0efa6a611e7feed1711d96db2da534b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-11T14:12:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d71180262e2f0b3943d21f59a56dfc02189a2adbcf189a6ee710fc1ed9a79311"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2108.05236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}