Pith Number

pith:UQBN5ISB

pith:2019:UQBN5ISB5JY5FNKKWS45U7ILU4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Proteus: A Scalable BFT Consesus Protocol for Blockchains

Costas Busch, Golden Richard III, Mohammad M. Jalalzai

arxiv:1903.04134 v3 · 2019-03-11 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UQBN5ISB5JY5FNKKWS45U7ILU4}

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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	2026-05-17T23:47:39.310255Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a402dea241ea71d2b54ab4b9da7d0ba73388d2755aae4f37082e351eda295337

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.04134 · arxiv_version: 1903.04134v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.04134 · pith_short_12: UQBN5ISB5JY5 · pith_short_16: UQBN5ISB5JY5FNKK · pith_short_8: UQBN5ISB

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/UQBN5ISB5JY5FNKKWS45U7ILU4 \
  | 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: a402dea241ea71d2b54ab4b9da7d0ba73388d2755aae4f37082e351eda295337

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dbd84c5da94e231a5defa350b32a5a6833c8113d9882e206c4b3fb82636b8252",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-11T05:41:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f01c9720bc05ad1ef3bbc81d171b7ed0b7e4cd7342447ab42ed4346c7c65f933"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.04134",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}