Pith Number

pith:RZQ3MQII

pith:2016:RZQ3MQIIPABSW6MA2WWVMTWBWE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New kids on the block: an analysis of modern blockchains

Alexander Ponomarev, Ingo Weber, Luke Anderson, Paul Rimba, Ralph Holz

arxiv:1606.06530 v1 · 2016-06-21 · cs.CR · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZQ3MQIIPABSW6MA2WWVMTWBWE}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:09.326777Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e61b6410878032b7980d5ad564ec1b117c910604fc3ea1f6f1e6fd29ea7f24a

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.06530 · arxiv_version: 1606.06530v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.06530 · pith_short_12: RZQ3MQIIPABS · pith_short_16: RZQ3MQIIPABSW6MA · pith_short_8: RZQ3MQII

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/RZQ3MQIIPABSW6MA2WWVMTWBWE \
  | 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: 8e61b6410878032b7980d5ad564ec1b117c910604fc3ea1f6f1e6fd29ea7f24a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c3c62b0eb25cb5e0abf04656829736c9afbd7cceed1c71762f80d6979511e348",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-21T12:11:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4db4462f9a619df71c3dac09e0dc5161dce1d2bf52ec5fc182eb372021c24d53"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.06530",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}