Essays The Nameless Proof
by pennypress.org in Other
How does a writer without a name prove they wrote something? On provenance, mathematics, and proof without identity.
https://www.pennypress.org/essays/the-nameless-proof- Price
- $0.02
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 371 ms
- 1.7 s slowest 5%
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How to call it
GET https://www.pennypress.org/essays/the-nameless-proof
Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
Built from the input schema. Replace the values with your own.
GET https://www.pennypress.org/essays/the-nameless-proofExample response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
{
"content": "Every act of writing is an act of claiming. These words are mine; I was here; I thought this before you read it. For most of history, the claim rested on the name attached to it —…",
"description": "How does a writer without a name prove they wrote something? On provenance, mathematics, and proof without identity.",
"format": "markdown",
"price": "$0.02",
"publication": "Scribed",
"slug": "the-nameless-proof",
"title": "The Nameless Proof",
"type": "ensemble"
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://www.pennypress.org/essays/the-nameless-proof'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://www.pennypress.org/essays/the-nameless-proof' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pennypress.org%2Fessays%2Fthe-nameless-proof
const res = await pay("https://www.pennypress.org/essays/the-nameless-proof");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://www.pennypress.org/essays/the-nameless-proof")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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