Pith Number

pith:U6GR5PSW

pith:2024:U6GR5PSW7324A53YMFQNS5SIST

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On the Lifecycle of a Lightning Network Payment Channel

Florian Gr\"otschla, Lioba Heimbach, Roger Wattenhofer, Severin Richner

arxiv:2409.15930 v1 · 2024-09-24 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U6GR5PSW7324A53YMFQNS5SIST}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T09:11:02.594808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a78d1ebe56fef5c077786160d9764894c8d450cb7e5a51cbfd9b3c3010c96bfa

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.15930 · arxiv_version: 2409.15930v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.15930 · pith_short_12: U6GR5PSW7324 · pith_short_16: U6GR5PSW7324A53Y · pith_short_8: U6GR5PSW

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/U6GR5PSW7324A53YMFQNS5SIST \
  | 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: a78d1ebe56fef5c077786160d9764894c8d450cb7e5a51cbfd9b3c3010c96bfa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d803c7e5d54c52c94ab1b3ad399864758409beb0b6d979505e486b51e4e840e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-24T09:55:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "32a7157e9283a49b457a5cbd915fca396989bc6052796eb452b9ce8e30bf76d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.15930",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}