Pith Number

pith:X4TQ6SK2

pith:2022:X4TQ6SK24WTDLE6I5TREDBCD6L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Reality-based UTXO Ledger

Andreas Penzkofer, Hans Moog, Jonas Theis, Nikita Polyanskii, Sebastian M\"uller, William Sanders

arxiv:2205.01345 v2 · 2022-05-03 · 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{X4TQ6SK24WTDLE6I5TREDBCD6L}

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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	2026-07-05T06:37:49.026709Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bf270f495ae5a63593c8ece2418443f2dac44645db6a783a7f54f24ca4b149d1

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.01345 · arxiv_version: 2205.01345v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.01345 · pith_short_12: X4TQ6SK24WTD · pith_short_16: X4TQ6SK24WTDLE6I · pith_short_8: X4TQ6SK2

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/X4TQ6SK24WTDLE6I5TREDBCD6L \
  | 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: bf270f495ae5a63593c8ece2418443f2dac44645db6a783a7f54f24ca4b149d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4217a7b17877eb758941b9cdf9794e68d99d4df7e5450ffa366069ad76c9f457",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-03T07:09:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3054c4a36a740185a0e62a6f965f3055ab960a3684c29773df600b2e237fa5e2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.01345",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}