Pith Number

pith:Z3PL3I5K

pith:2018:Z3PL3I5KA2EWQCQ56PYF7A3Z66

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An evaluation of the security of the Bitcoin Peer-to- Peer Network

James Tapsell, Konstantinos Markantonakis, Raja Naeem Akram

arxiv:1805.10259 v2 · 2018-05-25 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z3PL3I5KA2EWQCQ56PYF7A3Z66}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:53.047157Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cedebda3aa0689680a1df3f05f8379f78bd9ff161cb00a002a6337f6b8c2b496

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.10259 · arxiv_version: 1805.10259v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.10259 · pith_short_12: Z3PL3I5KA2EW · pith_short_16: Z3PL3I5KA2EWQCQ5 · pith_short_8: Z3PL3I5K

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/Z3PL3I5KA2EWQCQ56PYF7A3Z66 \
  | 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: cedebda3aa0689680a1df3f05f8379f78bd9ff161cb00a002a6337f6b8c2b496

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "18229fe7da201d353b647f105bbc2885ee0671132e75052640b7e7175e9349f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-25T17:22:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "624f18c94dbd3a5399ec85c0d818bc1c1137f278edb7028ab817ace3507c8653"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.10259",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}