Pith Number

pith:Z23ZVQJL

pith:2025:Z23ZVQJLWHG2AEICZRWZOZ4AIK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

From Permissioned to Proof-of-Stake Consensus

Andrew Lewis-Pye, Ertem Nusret Tas, Joachim Neu, Jovan Komatovic, Tim Roughgarden

arxiv:2506.14124 v2 · 2025-06-17 · 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{Z23ZVQJLWHG2AEICZRWZOZ4AIK}

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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	2026-07-05T11:51:30.447801Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ceb79ac12bb1cda01102cc6d97678042baf0e68fb1480e4ab3278a18ac0bb5ad

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.14124 · arxiv_version: 2506.14124v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.14124 · pith_short_12: Z23ZVQJLWHG2 · pith_short_16: Z23ZVQJLWHG2AEIC · pith_short_8: Z23ZVQJL

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/Z23ZVQJLWHG2AEICZRWZOZ4AIK \
  | 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: ceb79ac12bb1cda01102cc6d97678042baf0e68fb1480e4ab3278a18ac0bb5ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e15ade4b2d0b5ad14f45fb7ae185d0b991e7edb3f0e8acf29891bd173bf41a48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-17T02:37:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba4dec1b691d0ab8ecaee9dbde4752fab24a50779f8ba25d6e5cc13067f67f10"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.14124",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}