Pith Number

pith:BX5BJNYA

pith:2019:BX5BJNYA64RFYG4XO2WFXSZYJA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Correct, Fast Remote Persistence

Dai Qin, Sanidhya Kashyap, Sanketh Nalli, Steve Byan, Virendra J. Marathe

arxiv:1909.02092 v1 · 2019-09-04 · cs.DC

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BX5BJNYA64RFYG4XO2WFXSZYJA}

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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	2026-07-05T00:02:30.234867Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0dfa14b700f7225c1b9776ac5bcb384830b3e918999c673bffebac5de0a48e31

Aliases

arxiv: 1909.02092 · arxiv_version: 1909.02092v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1909.02092 · pith_short_12: BX5BJNYA64RF · pith_short_16: BX5BJNYA64RFYG4X · pith_short_8: BX5BJNYA

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/BX5BJNYA64RFYG4XO2WFXSZYJA \
  | 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: 0dfa14b700f7225c1b9776ac5bcb384830b3e918999c673bffebac5de0a48e31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "281b2d073f283c880e27eaa16e5408ea5a8bfd65de673a9f9942dd6de44161f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-09-04T20:28:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "901d7c7ea51fe94c4f203d3358f8841388afb721726fd800f7d6c5161a9e0af4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1909.02092",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}