Pith Number

pith:TS2NAEUW

pith:2019:TS2NAEUWK6TNERL72JLSFGGKP6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Practical Low Latency Proof of Work Consensus

David Tse, Gerui Wang, Giulia Fanti, Lei Yang, Mohammad Alizadeh, Pramod Viswanath, Vivek Bagaria, Xuechao Wang

arxiv:1909.11261 v3 · 2019-09-25 · cs.DC · cs.CR · cs.NI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TS2NAEUWK6TNERL72JLSFGGKP6}

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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	2026-07-05T05:43:01.891535Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9cb4d0129657a6d2457fd2572298ca7fb911d0a6b9b6459e94d087cc5f0ebee7

Aliases

arxiv: 1909.11261 · arxiv_version: 1909.11261v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1909.11261 · pith_short_12: TS2NAEUWK6TN · pith_short_16: TS2NAEUWK6TNERL7 · pith_short_8: TS2NAEUW

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/TS2NAEUWK6TNERL72JLSFGGKP6 \
  | 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: 9cb4d0129657a6d2457fd2572298ca7fb911d0a6b9b6459e94d087cc5f0ebee7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2298d7c2eac61eae29bca300764c35184b8164ec233c3174ff3bc1870e9db15f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.NI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-09-25T02:42:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4e6dfc1f81000c1cbc5dc7a2640923ac1efe60bad0d4d028de832373f7884145"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1909.11261",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}