Pith Number

pith:ZQCJAKLC

pith:2021:ZQCJAKLC3TYTUIGTJGJ3575NPL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Global Transfers: M-Pesa, Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Innovation

Christopher Foster

arxiv:2108.09781 v1 · 2021-08-22 · cs.CY

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZQCJAKLC3TYTUIGTJGJ3575NPL}

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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	2026-07-05T03:07:58.529029Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cc04902962dcf13a20d34993beffad7afac08765452d970f609e58d1e1829cad

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.09781 · arxiv_version: 2108.09781v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.09781 · pith_short_12: ZQCJAKLC3TYT · pith_short_16: ZQCJAKLC3TYTUIGT · pith_short_8: ZQCJAKLC

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/ZQCJAKLC3TYTUIGTJGJ3575NPL \
  | 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: cc04902962dcf13a20d34993beffad7afac08765452d970f609e58d1e1829cad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "90a58539f361e4fafdb50fcbc9292149792ce5867edc5555e5c7c54275b644a0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-22T16:52:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "784fb49eacef84078e5a0c801c957cfe1211cb76cfb5daa81bc727ca6055c055"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2108.09781",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}