Pith Number

pith:VYOFRQFE

pith:2017:VYOFRQFEO6C6WCSG5KSJY25K6M

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Towards Better Understanding of Bitcoin Unreachable Peers

Ivan Pustogarov, Liang Wang

arxiv:1709.06837 v1 · 2017-09-20 · cs.NI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VYOFRQFEO6C6WCSG5KSJY25K6M}

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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

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Unveiling Ethereum's P2P Network: The Role of Chain and Client Diversity

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:34:40.298650Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae1c58c0a47785eb0a46eaa49c6baaf33266c16d21ea230cc413259919841257

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.06837 · arxiv_version: 1709.06837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.06837 · pith_short_12: VYOFRQFEO6C6 · pith_short_16: VYOFRQFEO6C6WCSG · pith_short_8: VYOFRQFE

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/VYOFRQFEO6C6WCSG5KSJY25K6M \
  | 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: ae1c58c0a47785eb0a46eaa49c6baaf33266c16d21ea230cc413259919841257

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "be0ff7ca7dadc712a71cf9c6dcb140b35260aa5ba014c9aaf701b90acb02641e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-20T12:45:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9106332abf7255964e45bff193dc143aa3ffcdcf1a4445bdf57c6140cbbc64c3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.06837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}