Pith Number

pith:EV6XH2TF

pith:2014:EV6XH2TFEQ2HV5SU6PNXX67YGH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Consensus with an Abstract MAC Layer

Calvin Newport

arxiv:1405.1382 v1 · 2014-05-06 · 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{EV6XH2TFEQ2HV5SU6PNXX67YGH}

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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	2026-05-18T02:52:32.936023Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

257d73ea6524347af654f3db7bfbf831fdc22f9fd8904d44e4a89e72114d0ae5

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.1382 · arxiv_version: 1405.1382v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.1382 · pith_short_12: EV6XH2TFEQ2H · pith_short_16: EV6XH2TFEQ2HV5SU · pith_short_8: EV6XH2TF

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/EV6XH2TFEQ2HV5SU6PNXX67YGH \
  | 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: 257d73ea6524347af654f3db7bfbf831fdc22f9fd8904d44e4a89e72114d0ae5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d35b965b2f811a28cb9f6e6cb532f4d76fc722dc8b46839f7007cc7dd1eb7f9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-06T17:48:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12a8c329f65b6d60b587208dcb1f410c47de7b414192bbcbdbfaaa50f346b56e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.1382",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}