Pith Number

pith:XO3O4FQE

pith:2019:XO3O4FQEVRMVTMK654NYAKF7LI

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A Generic Efficient Biased Optimizer for Consensus Protocols

Roy Friedman, Yehonatan Buchnik

arxiv:1908.02675 v1 · 2019-08-07 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XO3O4FQEVRMVTMK654NYAKF7LI}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T23:52:11.285952Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbb6ee1604ac5959b15eef1b8028bf5a08a19f7e27006d7fac1b693e675a29a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.02675 · arxiv_version: 1908.02675v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.02675 · pith_short_12: XO3O4FQEVRMV · pith_short_16: XO3O4FQEVRMVTMK6 · pith_short_8: XO3O4FQE

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/XO3O4FQEVRMVTMK654NYAKF7LI \
  | 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: bbb6ee1604ac5959b15eef1b8028bf5a08a19f7e27006d7fac1b693e675a29a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6046d6e5798f18d1e4c821bbaea7b6dcd6fe48d12b142ff271d698e7cd898577",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-07T15:14:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "df84b7bbf2346c2dae2ba29d24a36746babdd8e81c8aad4f59f8ec8a88b6c688"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.02675",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}