Pith Number

pith:7CVEMTGU

pith:2018:7CVEMTGUF2SCIUIGGYQ53YGT6U

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The Scalability of Trustless Trust

Dominik Harz, Magnus Boman

arxiv:1801.09535 v1 · 2018-01-29 · cs.CR · cs.DC · cs.MA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7CVEMTGUF2SCIUIGGYQ53YGT6U}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:57.131559Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f8aa464cd42ea42451063621dde0d3f5304b7c272833a484ceb8cf37d9fe5401

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.09535 · arxiv_version: 1801.09535v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.09535 · pith_short_12: 7CVEMTGUF2SC · pith_short_16: 7CVEMTGUF2SCIUIG · pith_short_8: 7CVEMTGU

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/7CVEMTGUF2SCIUIGGYQ53YGT6U \
  | 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: f8aa464cd42ea42451063621dde0d3f5304b7c272833a484ceb8cf37d9fe5401

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e98a322d1ef0bba0478ae792b2233b789c26350160c15603e7e74c039d084680",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.MA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-29T14:47:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c77c92f7d9dd997c21dd57a4cebefe11ea3ce31944248e32f88c9fd577a66d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.09535",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}