Pith Number

pith:WC4MWJ5B

pith:2026:WC4MWJ5BBVIMCZIHM5QSU47BIK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Manufactured Confidence: How Memory Consolidation Turns Hearsay into Confident Facts

Alex Kwon

arxiv:2606.29279 v1 · 2026-06-28 · cs.CR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WC4MWJ5BBVIMCZIHM5QSU47BIK}

Prints a linked badge after your title and injects PDF metadata. Compiles on arXiv. Learn more · Embed verified badge

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	2026-06-30T01:18:00.049522Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b0b8cb27a10d50c1650767612a73e1428284caa9720d9424f961b3cf04c0eb18

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.29279 · arxiv_version: 2606.29279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.29279 · pith_short_12: WC4MWJ5BBVIM · pith_short_16: WC4MWJ5BBVIMCZIH · pith_short_8: WC4MWJ5B

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/WC4MWJ5BBVIMCZIHM5QSU47BIK \
  | 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: b0b8cb27a10d50c1650767612a73e1428284caa9720d9424f961b3cf04c0eb18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7ee2163582fc8d020dc70f645f9f3a80319c20430a635c0e6ea922d938f205ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-28T08:56:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "802a7e24134dbd99a0df8039aade234159eb3ed0a460f01e730f22c2e87ad985"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.29279",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}