Pith Number

pith:W5AL4QEP

pith:2014:W5AL4QEPV3FIWPXEHBYYF43OKE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Operational Distributed Regulation for Bitcoin

Dinesh, Erlich, Gilfoyle, Jared, Johan Pouwelse, Richard

arxiv:1406.5440 v1 · 2014-06-20 · cs.CR · cs.CY · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W5AL4QEPV3FIWPXEHBYYF43OKE}

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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	2026-05-18T02:49:19.098189Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b740be408faeca8b3ee4387182f36e5120c1bdadd0324d92df0e3c8a785aac18

Aliases

arxiv: 1406.5440 · arxiv_version: 1406.5440v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1406.5440 · pith_short_12: W5AL4QEPV3FI · pith_short_16: W5AL4QEPV3FIWPXE · pith_short_8: W5AL4QEP

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/W5AL4QEPV3FIWPXEHBYYF43OKE \
  | 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: b740be408faeca8b3ee4387182f36e5120c1bdadd0324d92df0e3c8a785aac18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c94d19f0b1f286b5018d21f90e73d1949c091dbfe6e8343884a598c99683510a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY",
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2014-06-20T16:06:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bc426a11d71618d1495ea7b618ce25ce64403905168623adede1b70581baa5f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1406.5440",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}