Pith Number

pith:ZY6U7LZV

pith:2016:ZY6U7LZVH4IRQNVELFNLRMNJ7K

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Blockchain: A Gentle Four Page Introduction

Jan Hendrik Witte

arxiv:1612.06244 v1 · 2016-12-06 · q-fin.GN · 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{ZY6U7LZVH4IRQNVELFNLRMNJ7K}

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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	2026-05-18T00:54:42.840073Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce3d4faf353f111836a4595ab8b1a9fa9d18ef3779058b968ba25e7195e5122b

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.06244 · arxiv_version: 1612.06244v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.06244 · pith_short_12: ZY6U7LZVH4IR · pith_short_16: ZY6U7LZVH4IRQNVE · pith_short_8: ZY6U7LZV

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/ZY6U7LZVH4IRQNVELFNLRMNJ7K \
  | 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: ce3d4faf353f111836a4595ab8b1a9fa9d18ef3779058b968ba25e7195e5122b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "70463ef17f09fed6d90c07e71f8bcea84b58c86d1cc2714e713c3ae2c4804719",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-fin.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-06T08:42:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a17f6c5f3c90d5fbc151c8dad4dfb04f4c77fbc3bf7c6548e093053cea8c147"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.06244",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}