Pith Number

pith:VX7VQLMB

pith:2025:VX7VQLMBWFTSBV4D7R7SYBBIMJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Peer Review as Structured Commentary: Immutable Identity, Public Dialogue, and Reproducible Scholarship

Craig Steven Wright

arxiv:2506.22497 v1 · 2025-06-25 · cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.DL · cs.SI · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VX7VQLMBWFTSBV4D7R7SYBBIMJ}

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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	2026-07-05T11:28:39.605783Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adff582d81b16720d783fc7f2c04286255af8e2242e69087c78256b14a36d34e

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.22497 · arxiv_version: 2506.22497v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.22497 · pith_short_12: VX7VQLMBWFTS · pith_short_16: VX7VQLMBWFTSBV4D · pith_short_8: VX7VQLMB

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/VX7VQLMBWFTSBV4D7R7SYBBIMJ \
  | 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: adff582d81b16720d783fc7f2c04286255af8e2242e69087c78256b14a36d34e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d6ba6fc4f1ed3103b71d953b2d1933b02d242571ea9b9403ae242f6b2495f7ba",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DL",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-25T03:57:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f2cf6e4b7473db2d41c6e78f33110ea66c2d2e2a39a7874df22b9b8f987ffe7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.22497",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}