Pith Number

pith:ZYQMFO6B

pith:2018:ZYQMFO6BFUU6WSCXMMP6NLCRDA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies

Alan T. Sherman, Enis Golaszewski, Farid Javani, Haibin Zhang

arxiv:1810.06130 v1 · 2018-10-15 · 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{ZYQMFO6BFUU6WSCXMMP6NLCRDA}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:21.334103Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce20c2bbc12d29eb4857631fe6ac511804f30d6bbe0f9ec0f40de37be8fef345

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.06130 · arxiv_version: 1810.06130v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.06130 · pith_short_12: ZYQMFO6BFUU6 · pith_short_16: ZYQMFO6BFUU6WSCX · pith_short_8: ZYQMFO6B

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/ZYQMFO6BFUU6WSCXMMP6NLCRDA \
  | 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: ce20c2bbc12d29eb4857631fe6ac511804f30d6bbe0f9ec0f40de37be8fef345

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9c75d9c735a71940555fec9b51253e27194c811896a5c55e07d980d80aea629",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-15T00:00:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12170625e387a432c38d2ce672c3a3c7652c0bd34f287cf4797698bd87375e90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.06130",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}