Pith Number

pith:VQDAI4VG

pith:2025:VQDAI4VG3PJ5V456V43ND34XK3

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Centralized Trust in Decentralized Systems: Unveiling Hidden Contradictions in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

EunJeong Cheon, Faisal Haque Bappy, Tariqul Islam

arxiv:2505.06661 v1 · 2025-05-10 · cs.HC · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VQDAI4VG3PJ5V456V43ND34XK3}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T11:01:13.859752Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac060472a6dbd3daf3beaf36d1ef9756d074e97f0dc1d09d9efc215e4c0d600a

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.06661 · arxiv_version: 2505.06661v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.06661 · pith_short_12: VQDAI4VG3PJ5 · pith_short_16: VQDAI4VG3PJ5V456 · pith_short_8: VQDAI4VG

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/VQDAI4VG3PJ5V456V43ND34XK3 \
  | 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: ac060472a6dbd3daf3beaf36d1ef9756d074e97f0dc1d09d9efc215e4c0d600a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "97ca389c4fc417d3c05fa187de6df1287e275592c6b34cb8b4fe3e27b1df73f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-10T14:38:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9b84ee9ac0a02a9e8d655c6f4fb31f77ad68ae94ed698c52f1543258cdc12a0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.06661",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}