Pith Number

pith:ZZ5SDG6H

pith:2026:ZZ5SDG6HRI6HGR2TGLX3YVHP3F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Price of Decentralization in Block Building

Bruno Mazorra, Burak \"Oz, Fei Wu, Luis Correia, Sen Yang, Stefanos Leonardos

arxiv:2606.01874 v1 · 2026-06-01 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ZZ5SDG6HRI6HGR2TGLX3YVHP3F}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-06-02T02:04:59.262455Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ce7b219bc78a3c73475332efbc54efd97a1a4e370d1685a516ad4f733d0b5ca9

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.01874 · arxiv_version: 2606.01874v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.01874 · pith_short_12: ZZ5SDG6HRI6H · pith_short_16: ZZ5SDG6HRI6HGR2T · pith_short_8: ZZ5SDG6H

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/ZZ5SDG6HRI6HGR2TGLX3YVHP3F \
  | 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: ce7b219bc78a3c73475332efbc54efd97a1a4e370d1685a516ad4f733d0b5ca9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81d85a521b1008125cc546d86103757d068f8b34daeb2f0342a2c7eb67216e45",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-01T08:20:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dd08ba98cb40480b331797085e7ebda6b960d24e0e8131a990204bec42f3ce58"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.01874",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}