Pith Number

pith:XU3AFEYR

pith:2016:XU3AFEYR52G7VGDFGRRWC36ZCO

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AsicBoost - A Speedup for Bitcoin Mining

Timo Hanke

arxiv:1604.00575 v1 · 2016-04-03 · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XU3AFEYR52G7VGDFGRRWC36ZCO}

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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	2026-05-18T01:17:49.087077Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bd36029311ee8dfa98653463616fd913af8cba996bf6ef06d24f99a263adc490

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.00575 · arxiv_version: 1604.00575v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.00575 · pith_short_12: XU3AFEYR52G7 · pith_short_16: XU3AFEYR52G7VGDF · pith_short_8: XU3AFEYR

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/XU3AFEYR52G7VGDFGRRWC36ZCO \
  | 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: bd36029311ee8dfa98653463616fd913af8cba996bf6ef06d24f99a263adc490

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cb66d2ffdc5676303bdfb1f0ec04881bd8badfd158333430412865c409850f0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-03T00:05:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "763050c9e423c2ed698aed096ccb8bedec02ad6a00ef63c2f746007539350e20"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.00575",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}