Pith Number

pith:NV66HKMJ

pith:2019:NV66HKMJTV7X4WVIWWLPDQ7BF4

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Ride the Lightning: The Game Theory of Payment Channels

Lioba Heimbach, Roger Wattenhofer, Yuyi Wang, Zeta Avarikioti

arxiv:1912.04797 v1 · 2019-12-10 · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NV66HKMJTV7X4WVIWWLPDQ7BF4}

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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	2026-07-05T00:25:21.690913Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d7de3a9899d7f7e5aa8b596f1c3e12f39bf2464ad3e12824f6b399ac06f5ffc

Aliases

arxiv: 1912.04797 · arxiv_version: 1912.04797v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1912.04797 · pith_short_12: NV66HKMJTV7X · pith_short_16: NV66HKMJTV7X4WVI · pith_short_8: NV66HKMJ

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/NV66HKMJTV7X4WVIWWLPDQ7BF4 \
  | 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: 6d7de3a9899d7f7e5aa8b596f1c3e12f39bf2464ad3e12824f6b399ac06f5ffc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "84e02551625a1605ee164ba0e2d2aed3f78811f6f78017a846470c7c3c0b8b1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.GT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-12-10T16:28:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d8e505e3d7ede31b2f16114ab1ff4233505447db81bd06c4f92843ef805db1c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1912.04797",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}