Pith Number

pith:VCK4CPU6

pith:2017:VCK4CPU6RXVCGPV46CQEVBLEA6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Concurrent Perspective on Smart Contracts

Aquinas Hobor, Ilya Sergey

arxiv:1702.05511 v1 · 2017-02-17 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VCK4CPU6RXVCGPV46CQEVBLEA6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:30.621996Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a895c13e9e8dea233ebcf0a04a856407a5168e12ae55ba20fb8bea17d5daaecb

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05511 · arxiv_version: 1702.05511v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05511 · pith_short_12: VCK4CPU6RXVC · pith_short_16: VCK4CPU6RXVCGPV4 · pith_short_8: VCK4CPU6

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/VCK4CPU6RXVCGPV46CQEVBLEA6 \
  | 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: a895c13e9e8dea233ebcf0a04a856407a5168e12ae55ba20fb8bea17d5daaecb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8a9240d3b76c659589720def0c96ad8efdb85f6b4ef29da29b042144d20e8cd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-17T20:21:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f7d919f6eb8401882f31ec70de1c0d8adaf07886ea5531f0752d35fb10ac25b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05511",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}