Pith Number

pith:VAKPW2KO

pith:2018:VAKPW2KOUEDQJCR2T57Z32LC2Z

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On the Economic Significance of Ransomware Campaigns: A Bitcoin Transactions Perspective

Ankit Gangwal, Mauro Conti, Sushmita Ruj

arxiv:1804.01341 v5 · 2018-04-04 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VAKPW2KOUEDQJCR2T57Z32LC2Z}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:02.178653Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a814fb694ea107048a3a9f7f9de962d64a03f05bc4f7a178966171d61f21a33c

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.01341 · arxiv_version: 1804.01341v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.01341 · pith_short_12: VAKPW2KOUEDQ · pith_short_16: VAKPW2KOUEDQJCR2 · pith_short_8: VAKPW2KO

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/VAKPW2KOUEDQJCR2T57Z32LC2Z \
  | 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: a814fb694ea107048a3a9f7f9de962d64a03f05bc4f7a178966171d61f21a33c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "057a6ac3f335b55eeceedf554f53f0d5f22806532e65cda119d34210cc6f9baf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-04T10:59:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9869a46e41188630d206e58a11fa1e29796a27db4d8f47cd050ff898e3cfb50c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.01341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}