Pith Number

pith:T6CKBGZG

pith:2026:T6CKBGZGJJJKR3WXERUK2PLL2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Bitcoin's Power Law: Weak Structure, Strong Forecasts

Carlos Baquero, Raquel Menezes

arxiv:2605.21316 v1 · 2026-05-20 · stat.AP · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{T6CKBGZGJJJKR3WXERUK2PLL2C}

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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	2026-05-21T02:05:28.854065Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9f84a09b264a52a8eed72468ad3d6bd0ba75c0c3b93f20101bdda71cd340dcd2

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21316 · arxiv_version: 2605.21316v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21316 · pith_short_12: T6CKBGZGJJJK · pith_short_16: T6CKBGZGJJJKR3WX · pith_short_8: T6CKBGZG

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/T6CKBGZGJJJKR3WXERUK2PLL2C \
  | 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: 9f84a09b264a52a8eed72468ad3d6bd0ba75c0c3b93f20101bdda71cd340dcd2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4fbf83e286355680c879d58f3cfa8cb0f3a1c754edb39db6f9b5811796bd5dd7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T15:46:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe906fdcd9c96649a4124bc0cdc471aa97934d4e6755ade589addfd9b872cd0c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21316",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}