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People wishing to submit BIPs, first should propose their idea or document to the [email protected] mailing list (do not assign a number - read BIP 2 for the full process). After discussion, please open a PR. After copy-editing and acceptance, it will be published here.

We are fairly liberal with approving BIPs, and try not to be too involved in decision making on behalf of the community. The exception is in very rare cases of dispute resolution when a decision is contentious and cannot be agreed upon. In those cases, the conservative option will always be preferred.

Having a BIP here does not make it a formally accepted standard until its status becomes Final or Active.

Those proposing changes should consider that ultimately consent may rest with the consensus of the Bitcoin users (see also: economic majority).

Number Layer Title Owner Type Status
1 BIP Purpose and Guidelines Amir Taaki Process Replaced
2 BIP process, revised Luke Dashjr Process Active
8 Version bits with lock-in by height Shaolin Fry, Luke Dashjr Informational Draft
9 Version bits with timeout and delay Pieter Wuille, Peter Todd, Greg Maxwell, Rusty Russell Informational Final
10 Applications Multi-Sig Transaction Distribution Alan Reiner Informational Withdrawn
11 Applications M-of-N Standard Transactions Gavin Andresen Standard Final
12 Consensus (soft fork) OP_EVAL Gavin Andresen Standard Withdrawn
13 Applications Address Format for pay-to-script-hash Gavin Andresen Standard Final
14 Peer Services Protocol Version and User Agent Amir Taaki, Patrick Strateman Standard Final
15 Applications Aliases Amir Taaki Standard Deferred
16 Consensus (soft fork) Pay to Script Hash Gavin Andresen Standard Final
17 Consensus (soft fork) OP_CHECKHASHVERIFY (CHV) Luke Dashjr Standard Withdrawn
18 Consensus (soft fork) hashScriptCheck Luke Dashjr Standard Proposed
19 Applications M-of-N Standard Transactions (Low SigOp) Luke Dashjr Standard Rejected
20 Applications URI Scheme Luke Dashjr Standard Replaced
21 Applications URI Scheme Nils Schneider, Matt Corallo Standard Final
22 API/RPC getblocktemplate - Fundamentals Luke Dashjr Standard Final
23 API/RPC getblocktemplate - Pooled Mining Luke Dashjr Standard Final
30 Consensus (soft fork) Duplicate transactions Pieter Wuille Standard Final
31 Peer Services Pong message Mike Hearn Standard Final
32 Applications Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets Pieter Wuille Informational Final
33 Peer Services Stratized Nodes Amir Taaki Standard Rejected
34 Consensus (soft fork) Block v2, Height in Coinbase Gavin Andresen Standard Final
35 Peer Services mempool message Jeff Garzik Standard Final
36 Peer Services Custom Services Stefan Thomas Standard Rejected
37 Peer Services Connection Bloom filtering Mike Hearn, Matt Corallo Standard Final
38 Applications Passphrase-protected private key Mike Caldwell, Aaron Voisine Standard Draft
39 Applications Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys Marek Palatinus, Pavol Rusnak, Aaron Voisine, Sean Bowe Standard Final
40 API/RPC Stratum wire protocol Marek Palatinus Standard BIP number allocated
41 API/RPC Stratum mining protocol Marek Palatinus Standard BIP number allocated
42 Consensus (soft fork) A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin Pieter Wuille Standard Final
43 Applications Purpose Field for Deterministic Wallets Marek Palatinus, Pavol Rusnak Standard Final
44 Applications Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets Marek Palatinus, Pavol Rusnak Standard Final
45 Applications Structure for Deterministic P2SH Multisignature Wallets Manuel Araoz, Ryan X. Charles, Matias Alejo Garcia Standard Proposed
46 Applications Address Scheme for Timelocked Fidelity Bonds Chris Belcher, Thebora Kompanioni Standard Draft
47 Applications Reusable Payment Codes for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets Justus Ranvier Informational Final
48 Applications Multi-Script Hierarchy for Multi-Sig Wallets Fontaine Standard Proposed
49 Applications Derivation scheme for P2WPKH-nested-in-P2SH based accounts Daniel Weigl Standard Final
50 March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem Gavin Andresen Informational Final
52 Consensus (hard fork) Durable, Low Energy Bitcoin PoW Michael Dubrovsky, Bogdan Penkovsky Standard Draft
60 Peer Services Fixed Length "version" Message (Relay-Transactions Field) Amir Taaki Standard Draft
61 Peer Services Reject P2P message Gavin Andresen Standard Final
62 Consensus (soft fork) Dealing with malleability Pieter Wuille Standard Withdrawn
63 Applications Stealth Addresses Peter Todd Standard BIP number allocated
64 Peer Services getutxo message Mike Hearn Standard Obsolete
65 Consensus (soft fork) OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY Peter Todd Standard Final
66 Consensus (soft fork) Strict DER signatures Pieter Wuille Standard Final
67 Applications Deterministic Pay-to-script-hash multi-signature addresses through public key sorting Thomas Kerin, Jean-Pierre Rupp, Ruben de Vries Standard Proposed
68 Consensus (soft fork) Relative lock-time using consensus-enforced sequence numbers Mark Friedenbach, BtcDrak, Nicolas Dorier, kinoshitajona Standard Final
69 Applications Lexicographical Indexing of Transaction Inputs and Outputs Kristov Atlas Informational Proposed
70 Applications Payment Protocol Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn Standard Final
71 Applications Payment Protocol MIME types Gavin Andresen Standard Final
72 Applications bitcoin: uri extensions for Payment Protocol Gavin Andresen Standard Final
73 Applications Use "Accept" header for response type negotiation with Payment Request URLs Stephen Pair Standard Final
74 Applications Allow zero value OP_RETURN in Payment Protocol Toby Padilla Standard Rejected
75 Applications Out of Band Address Exchange using Payment Protocol Encryption Justin Newton, Matt David, Aaron Voisine, James MacWhyte Standard Final
78 Applications A Simple Payjoin Proposal Nicolas Dorier Standard Draft
79 Applications Bustapay :: a practical coinjoin protocol Ryan Havar Informational Replaced
80 Hierarchy for Non-Colored Voting Pool Deterministic Multisig Wallets Justus Ranvier, Jimmy Song Informational Deferred
81 Hierarchy for Colored Voting Pool Deterministic Multisig Wallets Justus Ranvier, Jimmy Song Informational Deferred
83 Applications Dynamic Hierarchical Deterministic Key Trees Eric Lombrozo Standard Rejected
84 Applications Derivation scheme for P2WPKH based accounts Pavol Rusnak Standard Final
85 Applications Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains Ethan Kosakovsky, Aneesh Karve Informational Final
86 Applications Key Derivation for Single Key P2TR Outputs Ava Chow Standard Final
87 Applications Hierarchy for Deterministic Multisig Wallets Robert Spigler Standard Proposed
88 Applications Hierarchical Deterministic Path Templates Dmitry Petukhov Informational Proposed
90 Buried Deployments Suhas Daftuar Informational Final
91 Consensus (soft fork) Reduced threshold Segwit MASF James Hilliard Standard Final
93 Applications codex32: Checksummed SSSS-aware BIP32 seeds Leon Olsson Curr, Pearlwort Sneed, Andrew Poelstra Informational Draft
94 Applications Testnet 4 Fabian Jahr Standard Draft
98 Consensus (soft fork) Fast Merkle Trees Mark Friedenbach, Kalle Alm, BtcDrak Standard Draft
99 Motivation and deployment of consensus rule changes ([soft/hard]forks) Jorge Timón Informational Rejected
100 Consensus (hard fork) Dynamic maximum block size by miner vote Jeff Garzik, Tom Harding, Dagur Valberg Johannsson Standard Rejected
101 Consensus (hard fork) Increase maximum block size Gavin Andresen Standard Withdrawn
102 Consensus (hard fork) Block size increase to 2MB Jeff Garzik Standard Rejected
103 Consensus (hard fork) Block size following technological growth Pieter Wuille Standard Withdrawn
104 Consensus (hard fork) 'Block75' - Max block size like difficulty t.khan Standard Rejected
105 Consensus (hard fork) Consensus based block size retargeting algorithm BtcDrak Standard Rejected
106 Consensus (hard fork) Dynamically Controlled Bitcoin Block Size Max Cap Upal Chakraborty Standard Rejected
107 Consensus (hard fork) Dynamic limit on the block size Washington Y. Sanchez Standard Rejected
109 Consensus (hard fork) Two million byte size limit with sigop and sighash limits Gavin Andresen Standard Rejected
111 Peer Services NODE_BLOOM service bit Matt Corallo, Peter Todd Standard Proposed
112 Consensus (soft fork) CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY BtcDrak, Mark Friedenbach, Eric Lombrozo Standard Final
113 Consensus (soft fork) Median time-past as endpoint for lock-time calculations Thomas Kerin, Mark Friedenbach Standard Final
114 Consensus (soft fork) Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree Johnson Lau Standard Rejected
115 Consensus (soft fork) Generic anti-replay protection using Script Luke Dashjr Standard Rejected
116 Consensus (soft fork) MERKLEBRANCHVERIFY Mark Friedenbach, Kalle Alm, BtcDrak Standard Draft
117 Consensus (soft fork) Tail Call Execution Semantics Mark Friedenbach, Kalle Alm, BtcDrak Standard Draft
118 Consensus (soft fork) SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT for Taproot Scripts Christian Decker, Anthony Towns Standard Draft
119 Consensus (soft fork) CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY Jeremy Rubin Standard Draft
120 Applications Proof of Payment Kalle Rosenbaum Standard Withdrawn
121 Applications Proof of Payment URI scheme Kalle Rosenbaum Standard Withdrawn
122 Applications URI scheme for Blockchain references / exploration Marco Pontello Standard Draft
123 BIP Classification Eric Lombrozo Process Active
124 Applications Hierarchical Deterministic Script Templates Eric Lombrozo, William Swanson Informational Rejected
125 Applications Opt-in Full Replace-by-Fee Signaling David A. Harding, Peter Todd Standard Obsolete
126 Best Practices for Heterogeneous Input Script Transactions Kristov Atlas Informational Draft
127 Applications Simple Proof-of-Reserves Transactions Steven Roose Standard Draft
129 Applications Bitcoin Secure Multisig Setup (BSMS) Hugo Nguyen, Peter Gray, Marko Bencun, Aaron Chen, Rodolfo Novak Standard Proposed
130 Peer Services sendheaders message Suhas Daftuar Standard Final
131 Consensus (hard fork) "Coalescing Transaction" Specification (wildcard inputs) Chris Priest Standard Rejected
132 Committee-based BIP Acceptance Process Andy Chase Process Withdrawn
133 Peer Services feefilter message Alex Morcos Standard Final
134 Consensus (hard fork) Flexible Transactions Tom Zander Standard Rejected
135 Generalized version bits voting Sancho Panza Informational Rejected
136 Applications Bech32 Encoded Tx Position References Велеслав, Jonas Schnelli, Daniel Pape Informational Draft
137 Applications Signatures of Messages using Private Keys Christopher Gilliard Standard Final
140 Consensus (soft fork) Normalized TXID Christian Decker Standard Rejected
141 Consensus (soft fork) Segregated Witness (Consensus layer) Eric Lombrozo, Johnson Lau, Pieter Wuille Standard Final
142 Applications Address Format for Segregated Witness Johnson Lau Standard Withdrawn
143 Consensus (soft fork) Transaction Signature Verification for Version 0 Witness Program Johnson Lau, Pieter Wuille Standard Final
144 Peer Services Segregated Witness (Peer Services) Eric Lombrozo, Pieter Wuille Standard Final
145 API/RPC getblocktemplate Updates for Segregated Witness Luke Dashjr Standard Final
146 Consensus (soft fork) Dealing with signature encoding malleability Johnson Lau, Pieter Wuille Standard Withdrawn
147 Consensus (soft fork) Dealing with dummy stack element malleability Johnson Lau Standard Final
148 Consensus (soft fork) Mandatory activation of segwit deployment Shaolin Fry Standard Final
149 Consensus (soft fork) Segregated Witness (second deployment) Shaolin Fry Standard Withdrawn
150 Peer Services Peer Authentication Jonas Schnelli Standard Deferred
151 Peer Services Peer-to-Peer Communication Encryption Jonas Schnelli Standard Replaced
152 Peer Services Compact Block Relay Matt Corallo Standard Final
154 Peer Services Rate Limiting via peer specified challenges Karl-Johan Alm Standard Withdrawn
155 Peer Services addrv2 message Wladimir J. van der Laan Standard Draft
156 Peer Services Dandelion - Privacy Enhancing Routing Brad Denby, Andrew Miller, Giulia Fanti, Surya Bakshi, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Pramod Viswanath Standard Rejected
157 Peer Services Client Side Block Filtering Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Alex Akselrod, Jim Posen Standard Draft
158 Peer Services Compact Block Filters for Light Clients Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Alex Akselrod Standard Draft
159 Peer Services NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED service bit Jonas Schnelli Standard Final
171 Applications Currency/exchange rate information API Luke Dashjr Standard Rejected
173 Applications Base32 address format for native v0-16 witness outputs Pieter Wuille, Greg Maxwell Informational Final
174 Applications Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction Format Ava Chow Standard Final
175 Applications Pay to Contract Protocol Omar Shibli, Nicholas Gregory Informational Rejected
176 Bits Denomination Jimmy Song Informational Draft
178 Applications Version Extended WIF Karl-Johan Alm Standard Draft
179 Name for payment recipient identifiers Emil Engler, Luke Dashjr Informational Draft
180 Peer Services Block size/weight fraud proof Luke Dashjr Standard Rejected
197 Applications Hashed Time-Locked Collateral Contract Matthew Black, Tony Cai Standard Draft
199 Applications Hashed Time-Locked Contract transactions Sean Bowe, Daira Hopwood Standard Draft
300 Consensus (soft fork) Hashrate Escrows (Consensus layer) Paul Sztorc, CryptAxe Standard Draft
301 Consensus (soft fork) Blind Merged Mining (Consensus layer) Paul Sztorc, CryptAxe Standard Draft
310 Applications Stratum protocol extensions Pavel Moravec, Jan Čapek Informational Draft
320 nVersion bits for general purpose use BtcDrak Standard Draft
322 Applications Generic Signed Message Format Karl-Johan Alm Standard Draft
324 Peer Services Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schnelli, Pieter Wuille Standard Final
325 Applications Signet Karl-Johan Alm, Anthony Towns Standard Proposed
326 Applications Anti-fee-sniping in taproot transactions Chris Belcher Informational Draft
327 MuSig2 for BIP340-compatible Multi-Signatures Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Elliott Jin Informational Active
328 Applications Derivation Scheme for MuSig2 Aggregate Keys Ava Chow Informational Draft
329 Applications Wallet Labels Export Format Craig Raw Informational Draft
330 Peer Services Transaction announcements reconciliation Gleb Naumenko, Pieter Wuille Standard Draft
331 Peer Services Ancestor Package Relay Gloria Zhao Standard Draft
337 API/RPC Compressed Transactions Tom Briar Standard Draft
338 Peer Services Disable transaction relay message Suhas Daftuar Standard Withdrawn
339 Peer Services WTXID-based transaction relay Suhas Daftuar Standard Final
340 Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1 Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing Standard Final
341 Consensus (soft fork) Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Anthony Towns Standard Final
342 Consensus (soft fork) Validation of Taproot Scripts Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Anthony Towns Standard Final
343 Consensus (soft fork) Mandatory activation of taproot deployment Shinobius, Michael Folkson Standard Final
345 Consensus (soft fork) OP_VAULT James O'Beirne, Greg Sanders Standard Draft
347 Consensus (soft fork) OP_CAT in Tapscript Ethan Heilman, Armin Sabouri Standard Draft
350 Applications Bech32m format for v1+ witness addresses Pieter Wuille Standard Final
351 Applications Private Payments Alfred Hodler, Clark Moody Informational Draft
352 Applications Silent Payments josibake, Ruben Somsen Standard Proposed
353 Applications DNS Payment Instructions Matt Corallo, Bastien Teinturier Standard Draft
370 Applications PSBT Version 2 Ava Chow Standard Final
371 Applications Taproot Fields for PSBT Ava Chow Standard Final
372 Applications Pay-to-contract tweak fields for PSBT Maxim Orlovsky Standard Draft
373 Applications MuSig2 PSBT Fields Ava Chow Standard Draft
379 Applications Miniscript Pieter Wuille, Andrew Poelstra, Sanket Kanjalkar, Antoine Poinsot, Ava Chow Informational Draft
380 Applications Output Script Descriptors General Operation Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
381 Applications Non-Segwit Output Script Descriptors Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
382 Applications Segwit Output Script Descriptors Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
383 Applications Multisig Output Script Descriptors Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
384 Applications combo() Output Script Descriptors Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
385 Applications raw() and addr() Output Script Descriptors Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
386 Applications tr() Output Script Descriptors Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
387 Applications Tapscript Multisig Output Script Descriptors Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow Informational Final
388 Applications Wallet Policies for Descriptor Wallets Salvatore Ingala Standard Proposed
389 Applications Multipath Descriptor Key Expressions Ava Chow Informational Draft
390 Applications musig() Descriptor Key Expression Ava Chow Informational Draft
431 Applications Topology Restrictions for Pinning Gloria Zhao Informational Draft