Pith Number

pith:XPZ5FHW5

pith:2024:XPZ5FHW5RTZE5V6NAFITUTDU74

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Centralization in Block Building and Proposer-Builder Separation

Maryam Bahrani, Pranav Garimidi, Tim Roughgarden

arxiv:2401.12120 v1 · 2024-01-22 · cs.GT · cs.CR · cs.DC · econ.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XPZ5FHW5RTZE5V6NAFITUTDU74}

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Record completeness

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T07:36:15.478172Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbf3d29edd8cf24ed7cd01513a4c74ff39ccc4006db14d1cf7b97fd9ffd21277

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.12120 · arxiv_version: 2401.12120v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.12120 · pith_short_12: XPZ5FHW5RTZE · pith_short_16: XPZ5FHW5RTZE5V6N · pith_short_8: XPZ5FHW5

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/XPZ5FHW5RTZE5V6NAFITUTDU74 \
  | 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: bbf3d29edd8cf24ed7cd01513a4c74ff39ccc4006db14d1cf7b97fd9ffd21277

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bab5a62e2d1ba6d1943e452f7e3de5cce29541c4022d628f64e93217cdfd299d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.DC",
      "econ.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-22T17:05:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d73231cef645b82fdcd08b13e1da332fc9af378b35c901d0c7f6ab2410112ee5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.12120",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}