Pith Number

pith:V63VMCPO

pith:2016:V63VMCPOJRY3RSAZ32NNNXPZCL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Consus: Taming the Paxi

Robbert van Renesse, Robert Escriva

arxiv:1612.03457 v1 · 2016-12-11 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V63VMCPOJRY3RSAZ32NNNXPZCL}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:19.161649Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

afb75609ee4c71b8c819de9ad6ddf912f81f843317b1c210bed0bf65e9c9a5be

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03457 · arxiv_version: 1612.03457v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03457 · pith_short_12: V63VMCPOJRY3 · pith_short_16: V63VMCPOJRY3RSAZ · pith_short_8: V63VMCPO

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/V63VMCPOJRY3RSAZ32NNNXPZCL \
  | 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: afb75609ee4c71b8c819de9ad6ddf912f81f843317b1c210bed0bf65e9c9a5be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "032830d38050e8ec2f35750598470220cc3c91e27e72bf97fbbe8acbf92950c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-11T19:17:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f389daf93ef724138d0aa013bc5be045bb6a35035be5b9b7d03af1c635f631c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03457",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}