Pith Number

pith:J5DHFNV6

pith:2025:J5DHFNV6CFH72EUMBDJGGM2ASB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fast Deterministically Safe Proof-of-Work Consensus

Ali Farahbakhsh, Giuliano Losa, Ittay Eyal, Lorenzo Alvisi, Youer Pu

arxiv:2512.19968 v3 · 2025-12-23 · cs.CR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J5DHFNV6CFH72EUMBDJGGM2ASB}

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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	2026-06-04T01:08:38.662687Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f4672b6be114ffd128c08d26333409059d87ab06d605e9523d30fcb0d2fe43b

Aliases

arxiv: 2512.19968 · arxiv_version: 2512.19968v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.19968 · pith_short_12: J5DHFNV6CFH7 · pith_short_16: J5DHFNV6CFH72EUM · pith_short_8: J5DHFNV6

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/J5DHFNV6CFH72EUMBDJGGM2ASB \
  | 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: 4f4672b6be114ffd128c08d26333409059d87ab06d605e9523d30fcb0d2fe43b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "558370960aed83a2c8c89ed9fd454162393dd9d3824fc5df1044ba8fbfd04272",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-12-23T01:32:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c9adeae0cebee8a83bca6a34bca0e104af3cfcd66249903f0fb402acab47cfbc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2512.19968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}