Pith Number

pith:DTKFVQ4B

pith:2021:DTKFVQ4BNFBD3PG5G6STGY5XBR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Energy Footprint of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms Beyond Proof-of-Work

Daniel Platt, Jiahua Xu, Johannes Sedlmeir, Juan Ignacio Iba\~nez, Moritz Platt, Nikhil Vadgama, Paolo Tasca

arxiv:2109.03667 v6 · 2021-09-08 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DTKFVQ4BNFBD3PG5G6STGY5XBR}

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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	2026-07-05T04:11:07.360008Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1cd45ac38169423dbcdd37a53363b70c42ca1aed7ecda3014783bfef07eaac29

Aliases

arxiv: 2109.03667 · arxiv_version: 2109.03667v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2109.03667 · pith_short_12: DTKFVQ4BNFBD · pith_short_16: DTKFVQ4BNFBD3PG5 · pith_short_8: DTKFVQ4B

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/DTKFVQ4BNFBD3PG5G6STGY5XBR \
  | 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: 1cd45ac38169423dbcdd37a53363b70c42ca1aed7ecda3014783bfef07eaac29

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72c132064619b6aca0ab1e70e2251737898db4d01fa6c3f80a0f090ecf66c65a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2021-09-08T14:11:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f60062e4e504bbdc51c868d3ebbdd5f00fcf7fdf7ac673d0f6b278e6b91b7697"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2109.03667",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}