Pith Number

pith:WP7KQUDS

pith:2013:WP7KQUDSM2S3F4HULVUANUCNOO

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The False Premises and Promises of Bitcoin

Brian P. Hanley

arxiv:1312.2048 v8 · 2013-12-07 · cs.CE · q-fin.GN

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WP7KQUDSM2S3F4HULVUANUCNOO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:11:29.146173Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b3fea8507266a5b2f0f45d6806d04d73a186aeb2c507379ae949f714b2c6f576

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.2048 · arxiv_version: 1312.2048v8 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.2048 · pith_short_12: WP7KQUDSM2S3 · pith_short_16: WP7KQUDSM2S3F4HU · pith_short_8: WP7KQUDS

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/WP7KQUDSM2S3F4HULVUANUCNOO \
  | 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: b3fea8507266a5b2f0f45d6806d04d73a186aeb2c507379ae949f714b2c6f576

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad1265ac82e3cf4081189ca0e4f8f60dca13d08c0b3ff9fe6b5885afad383914",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "q-fin.GN"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-07T01:41:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7649b5a5bed07ed677a81e953815c9a81932576adcea8fb4a6580b119e126caf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.2048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 8
  }
}