Pith Number

pith:RXWWF7S3

pith:2026:RXWWF7S34JMCVPBFPSTCHDK4SQ

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TwoStepDemocracy: Prototyping of self-evolving, democratic, and decentralized systems

Johan Pouwelse, Stan Verlaan

arxiv:2606.25559 v1 · 2026-06-24 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RXWWF7S34JMCVPBFPSTCHDK4SQ}

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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	2026-06-25T01:18:08.776763Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8ded62fe5be2582abc257ca6238d5c940bf724246afa26a2c8b241a6a3a90c81

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.25559 · arxiv_version: 2606.25559v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.25559 · pith_short_12: RXWWF7S34JMC · pith_short_16: RXWWF7S34JMCVPBF · pith_short_8: RXWWF7S3

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/RXWWF7S34JMCVPBFPSTCHDK4SQ \
  | 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: 8ded62fe5be2582abc257ca6238d5c940bf724246afa26a2c8b241a6a3a90c81

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d08908173f5913728bf9c338eece7671d481fae233ead040fbbf6561cc33596c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-24T08:35:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f76697e3754a079b5315e6df593b6c349162f3f1eeb5ad9a2b922c7a0d9fa576"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.25559",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}