Pith Number

pith:YQ2MN6TB

pith:2016:YQ2MN6TBWNXHP2GT76HD3EAU7K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

How to verify computation with a rational network

Frank Stephan, Jason Teutsch, Prateek Saxena, Sanjay Jain

arxiv:1606.05917 v1 · 2016-06-19 · cs.GT · cs.CR · 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{YQ2MN6TBWNXHP2GT76HD3EAU7K}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:15.816732Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c434c6fa61b36e77e8d3ff8e3d9014fab460e0188c2b5819c3759312773c78b2

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.05917 · arxiv_version: 1606.05917v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.05917 · pith_short_12: YQ2MN6TBWNXH · pith_short_16: YQ2MN6TBWNXHP2GT · pith_short_8: YQ2MN6TB

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/YQ2MN6TBWNXHP2GT76HD3EAU7K \
  | 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: c434c6fa61b36e77e8d3ff8e3d9014fab460e0188c2b5819c3759312773c78b2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72437d4cae276311841ce32446ba0433f02ac14232440521bdee88e37cf9d7e3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-19T22:11:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40f4033fda15fbb9cb65b15c72ab89a7b6c095651f2e28dac4b6a703356bdbad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.05917",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}