Pith Number

pith:ZK4UZ7AV

pith:2026:ZK4UZ7AV6ZXLE4I2D6LEAF7FX3

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Why Ethereum Needs Fairness Mechanisms that Do Not Depend on Participants' Altruism

Hannes Hartenstein, Nils Henrik Beyer, Patrick Spiesberger

arxiv:2603.05666 v2 · 2026-03-05 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZK4UZ7AV6ZXLE4I2D6LEAF7FX3}

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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	2026-07-28T01:22:30.937460Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cab94cfc15f66eb2711a1f964017e5bed42c286fb4ddbcc444ab29df9368766c

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.05666 · arxiv_version: 2603.05666v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.05666 · pith_short_12: ZK4UZ7AV6ZXL · pith_short_16: ZK4UZ7AV6ZXLE4I2 · pith_short_8: ZK4UZ7AV

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/ZK4UZ7AV6ZXLE4I2D6LEAF7FX3 \
  | 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: cab94cfc15f66eb2711a1f964017e5bed42c286fb4ddbcc444ab29df9368766c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f831279bd33278e8bc13dca8992416c0353532c2e918d30b3d363e8354eac383",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-05T20:32:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae9e1225c1292c93d844c980b416d6059a08fe47b207057fc29e28c2f38e9c36"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.05666",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}