Pith Number

pith:YPPURQ3Y

pith:2017:YPPURQ3Y3OWADTIPW6ARDEA6BL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Dynamic Distributed Storage for Scaling Blockchains

Lav R. Varshney, Ravi Kiran Raman

arxiv:1711.07617 v2 · 2017-11-21 · cs.IT · cs.CR · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YPPURQ3Y3OWADTIPW6ARDEA6BL}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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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1 paper in Pith

SeF: A Secure Fountain Architecture for Slashing Storage Costs in Blockchains

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:35.921748Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c3df48c378dbac01cd0fb78111901e0afa2e6d537c784ebf2ee78be89898938a

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.07617 · arxiv_version: 1711.07617v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.07617 · pith_short_12: YPPURQ3Y3OWA · pith_short_16: YPPURQ3Y3OWADTIP · pith_short_8: YPPURQ3Y

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/YPPURQ3Y3OWADTIPW6ARDEA6BL \
  | 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: c3df48c378dbac01cd0fb78111901e0afa2e6d537c784ebf2ee78be89898938a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "adb864b7b71d07e77d53660ebd25a26aa11bf2d8ffc3013fe74bfb970b4beba7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-21T03:34:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7b558e81f0b721b2d0841ab9085faf48549cadea9e4010aa61b5af8aee0444de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.07617",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}