Pith Number

pith:VU3YQS2W

pith:2018:VU3YQS2WJ2HITPKR37DSBYUWAX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Blockchain Database Application Platform

Anders Skovsgaard, Bulat Nasrulin, Muhammad Muzammal, Qiang Qu

arxiv:1808.05199 v5 · 2018-08-15 · cs.DB

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VU3YQS2WJ2HITPKR37DSBYUWAX}

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:38.486981Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad37884b564e8e89bd51dfc720e29605e2ad2c0543ec14c3783570175c6ed2b4

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.05199 · arxiv_version: 1808.05199v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.05199 · pith_short_12: VU3YQS2WJ2HI · pith_short_16: VU3YQS2WJ2HITPKR · pith_short_8: VU3YQS2W

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/VU3YQS2WJ2HITPKR37DSBYUWAX \
  | 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: ad37884b564e8e89bd51dfc720e29605e2ad2c0543ec14c3783570175c6ed2b4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e23a7a9719dc288656bb7d3c63e733f20a18315435bfb9bef7e2f1b7b4b090db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-15T17:44:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "13d697fa5e8c79ff171f26a5df1fdc6a593da0298d88b0383ae0310887a2781c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.05199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}