Pith Number

pith:RY5STCFU

pith:2020:RY5STCFUC2I5DDSH3FQXCOMSB2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Scaling Strongly Consistent Replication

Ailidani Ailijiang, Aleksey Charapko, Murat Demirbas

arxiv:2003.07760 v2 · 2020-03-17 · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RY5STCFUC2I5DDSH3FQXCOMSB2}

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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	2026-07-05T02:08:29.310086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e3b2988b41691d18e47d9617139920e9bf2bf8a057d770bff2fd087e8129116

Aliases

arxiv: 2003.07760 · arxiv_version: 2003.07760v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2003.07760 · pith_short_12: RY5STCFUC2I5 · pith_short_16: RY5STCFUC2I5DDSH · pith_short_8: RY5STCFU

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/RY5STCFUC2I5DDSH3FQXCOMSB2 \
  | 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: 8e3b2988b41691d18e47d9617139920e9bf2bf8a057d770bff2fd087e8129116

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe929660187184a3eddcbda0f067a1e42985b0b9225dbebb042489b8635f10d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-03-17T15:17:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31e849754cca04ea1eed4728f78118f899e13c27f54ba280243a9c809b325cfe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2003.07760",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}