Pith Number

pith:V3IAHXH3

pith:2018:V3IAHXH3BRAPWY3WRJDOLC6XPW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Public Blockchain Client for Lightweight Users

Lei Xu, Lin Chen, Shouhuai Xu, Weidong Shi, Zhimin Gao

arxiv:1811.04900 v1 · 2018-11-12 · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V3IAHXH3BRAPWY3WRJDOLC6XPW}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:02.129585Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aed003dcfb0c40fb63768a46e58bd77d84caa567abbaa22f9b7e5dd0fe9549fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.04900 · arxiv_version: 1811.04900v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.04900 · pith_short_12: V3IAHXH3BRAP · pith_short_16: V3IAHXH3BRAPWY3W · pith_short_8: V3IAHXH3

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/V3IAHXH3BRAPWY3WRJDOLC6XPW \
  | 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: aed003dcfb0c40fb63768a46e58bd77d84caa567abbaa22f9b7e5dd0fe9549fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c5a88e6a3aa6ff122ab8cd60c31a28aaec73a59da17c9cbefbd827f1a18bd443",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-12T18:40:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "070c466c1b7f6977393928fcb3c01bc2f1876af332d2a404d7b3430a9dae516d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.04900",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}