Pith Number

pith:LA3HFFNC

pith:2011:LA3HFFNCDA33OPG54PD7AKDJVV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On Bitcoin and Red Balloons

Aviv Zohar, Moshe Babaioff, Shahar Dobzinski, Sigal Oren

arxiv:1111.2626 v2 · 2011-11-10 · cs.GT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LA3HFFNCDA33OPG54PD7AKDJVV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:40.801197Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

58367295a21837b73cdde3c7f02869ad779204520422ef2b0486483c470daa7b

Aliases

arxiv: 1111.2626 · arxiv_version: 1111.2626v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1111.2626 · pith_short_12: LA3HFFNCDA33 · pith_short_16: LA3HFFNCDA33OPG5 · pith_short_8: LA3HFFNC

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/LA3HFFNCDA33OPG54PD7AKDJVV \
  | 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: 58367295a21837b73cdde3c7f02869ad779204520422ef2b0486483c470daa7b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d986bab47a43536d105b7a6efa7e1d3cadf05da032a1083c01b9621ba23d7b48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2011-11-10T22:07:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb7ac3e36544595914d6b1e06d60044aaee263446781847731e98e000411decd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1111.2626",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}