Pith Number

pith:W6F7MGG7

pith:2018:W6F7MGG7HBQXMEZYQ2XF342DN3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Improving Bitcoin's Resilience to Churn

Ari Trachtenberg, David Starobinski, Muhammad Anas Imtiaz, Nabeel Younis

arxiv:1803.06559 v1 · 2018-03-17 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W6F7MGG7HBQXMEZYQ2XF342DN3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:45.607383Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b78bf618df386176133886ae5df3436ef555a02d0417d0ad241f8bcd33e38676

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06559 · arxiv_version: 1803.06559v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06559 · pith_short_12: W6F7MGG7HBQX · pith_short_16: W6F7MGG7HBQXMEZY · pith_short_8: W6F7MGG7

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/W6F7MGG7HBQXMEZYQ2XF342DN3 \
  | 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: b78bf618df386176133886ae5df3436ef555a02d0417d0ad241f8bcd33e38676

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c254660d84fc3851d5b342b37f152d6340dd1d80f13394ca3ca4605f431e76cf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-17T19:50:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "904589dc67019c333d102326781ed40bd4b5172044802293c9dc1f3ce5eeb501"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.06559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}