People wishing to submit BIPs should first describe their idea to the https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev [email protected] mailing list to get feedback on viability and community interested before working on a formal description. Please open a pull request to this repository only when substantial progress on the draft has been made, preferably when the draft is nearing completion. Authors do not assign a number to their own proposal. After a proposal meets the editorial criteria, a BIP Editor will assign a number to it and publish the proposal by merging the pull request to the repository. Please see BIP 3: Updated BIP Process for the full process.
The BIPs repository serves as a publication medium and archive. Having a BIP published here indicates that the proposal is in scope and has met other formal criteria for this repository, but does not indicate that it is a good idea, has community consensus, or that it is about to be adopted. The BIP Editors are expected to be liberal with publishing BIPs and to try not to be too involved in decision-making on behalf of the community. Beyond the formal criteria, evaluation of the proposals is left to the audience of the repository. When a proposal is controversial and it cannot be agreed upon whether it should be published, the conservative option will always be preferred: the proposal will be closed.
Those proposing and opposing changes should consider that ultimately acceptance and adoption rests with the Bitcoin users (see also: economic majority).
Number | Layer | Title | Owner | Type | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BIP-3 | Updated BIP Process | Murch | Process | Deployed | |
BIP-9 | Version bits with timeout and delay | Pieter Wuille, Peter Todd, Greg Maxwell, Rusty Russell | Informational | Deployed | |
BIP-11 | Applications | M-of-N Standard Transactions | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-13 | Applications | Address Format for pay-to-script-hash | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-14 | Peer Services | Protocol Version and User Agent | Amir Taaki, Patrick Strateman | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-16 | Consensus (soft fork) | Pay to Script Hash | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-21 | Applications | URI Scheme | Nils Schneider, Matt Corallo | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-22 | API/RPC | getblocktemplate - Fundamentals | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-23 | API/RPC | getblocktemplate - Pooled Mining | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-30 | Consensus (soft fork) | Duplicate transactions | Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-31 | Peer Services | Pong message | Mike Hearn | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-32 | Applications | Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets | Pieter Wuille | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-34 | Consensus (soft fork) | Block v2, Height in Coinbase | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-35 | Peer Services | mempool message | Jeff Garzik | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-37 | Peer Services | Connection Bloom filtering | Mike Hearn, Matt Corallo | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-39 | Applications | Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys | Marek Palatinus, Pavol Rusnak, Aaron Voisine, Sean Bowe | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-42 | Consensus (soft fork) | A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin | Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-43 | Applications | Purpose Field for Deterministic Wallets | Marek Palatinus, Pavol Rusnak | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-44 | Applications | Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets | Marek Palatinus, Pavol Rusnak | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-47 | Applications | Reusable Payment Codes for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets | Justus Ranvier | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-48 | Applications | Multi-Script Hierarchy for Multi-Sig Wallets | Fontaine | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-49 | Applications | Derivation scheme for P2WPKH-nested-in-P2SH based accounts | Daniel Weigl | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-50 | March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem | Gavin Andresen | Informational | Deployed | |
BIP-61 | Peer Services | Reject P2P message | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-65 | Consensus (soft fork) | OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY | Peter Todd | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-66 | Consensus (soft fork) | Strict DER signatures | Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-68 | Consensus (soft fork) | Relative lock-time using consensus-enforced sequence numbers | Mark Friedenbach, BtcDrak, Nicolas Dorier, kinoshitajona | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-70 | Applications | Payment Protocol | Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-71 | Applications | Payment Protocol MIME types | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-72 | Applications | bitcoin: uri extensions for Payment Protocol | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-73 | Applications | Use "Accept" header for response type negotiation with Payment Request URLs | Stephen Pair | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-75 | Applications | Out of Band Address Exchange using Payment Protocol Encryption | Justin Newton, Matt David, Aaron Voisine, James MacWhyte | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-84 | Applications | Derivation scheme for P2WPKH based accounts | Pavol Rusnak | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-85 | Applications | Deterministic Entropy From BIP32 Keychains | Ethan Kosakovsky, Aneesh Karve | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-86 | Applications | Key Derivation for Single Key P2TR Outputs | Ava Chow | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-90 | Buried Deployments | Suhas Daftuar | Informational | Deployed | |
BIP-91 | Consensus (soft fork) | Reduced threshold Segwit MASF | James Hilliard | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-94 | Applications | Testnet 4 | Fabian Jahr | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-112 | Consensus (soft fork) | CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY | BtcDrak, Mark Friedenbach, Eric Lombrozo | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-113 | Consensus (soft fork) | Median time-past as endpoint for lock-time calculations | Thomas Kerin, Mark Friedenbach | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-123 | BIP Classification | Eric Lombrozo | Process | Deployed | |
BIP-125 | Applications | Opt-in Full Replace-by-Fee Signaling | David A. Harding, Peter Todd | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-130 | Peer Services | sendheaders message | Suhas Daftuar | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-133 | Peer Services | feefilter message | Alex Morcos | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-137 | Applications | Signatures of Messages using Private Keys | Christopher Gilliard | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-141 | Consensus (soft fork) | Segregated Witness (Consensus layer) | Eric Lombrozo, Johnson Lau, Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-143 | Consensus (soft fork) | Transaction Signature Verification for Version 0 Witness Program | Johnson Lau, Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-144 | Peer Services | Segregated Witness (Peer Services) | Eric Lombrozo, Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-145 | API/RPC | getblocktemplate Updates for Segregated Witness | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-147 | Consensus (soft fork) | Dealing with dummy stack element malleability | Johnson Lau | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-148 | Consensus (soft fork) | Mandatory activation of segwit deployment | Shaolin Fry | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-152 | Peer Services | Compact Block Relay | Matt Corallo | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-159 | Peer Services | NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED service bit | Jonas Schnelli | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-173 | Applications | Base32 address format for native v0-16 witness outputs | Pieter Wuille, Greg Maxwell | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-174 | Applications | Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction Format | Ava Chow | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-324 | Peer Services | Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol | Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schnelli, Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-327 | MuSig2 for BIP340-compatible Multi-Signatures | Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Elliott Jin | Informational | Deployed | |
BIP-339 | Peer Services | WTXID-based transaction relay | Suhas Daftuar | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-340 | Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1 | Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing | Specification | Deployed | |
BIP-341 | Consensus (soft fork) | Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules | Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Anthony Towns | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-342 | Consensus (soft fork) | Validation of Taproot Scripts | Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Anthony Towns | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-343 | Consensus (soft fork) | Mandatory activation of taproot deployment | Shinobius, Michael Folkson | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-350 | Applications | Bech32m format for v1+ witness addresses | Pieter Wuille | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-370 | Applications | PSBT Version 2 | Ava Chow | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-371 | Applications | Taproot Fields for PSBT | Ava Chow | Specification | Deployed |
BIP-380 | Applications | Output Script Descriptors General Operation | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-381 | Applications | Non-Segwit Output Script Descriptors | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-382 | Applications | Segwit Output Script Descriptors | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-383 | Applications | Multisig Output Script Descriptors | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-384 | Applications | combo() Output Script Descriptors | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-385 | Applications | raw() and addr() Output Script Descriptors | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-386 | Applications | tr() Output Script Descriptors | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
BIP-387 | Applications | Tapscript Multisig Output Script Descriptors | Pieter Wuille, Ava Chow | Informational | Deployed |
Number | Layer | Title | Owner | Type | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BIP-18 | Consensus (soft fork) | hashScriptCheck | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Complete |
BIP-45 | Applications | Structure for Deterministic P2SH Multisignature Wallets | Manuel Araoz, Ryan X. Charles, Matias Alejo Garcia | Specification | Complete |
BIP-67 | Applications | Deterministic Pay-to-script-hash multi-signature addresses through public key sorting | Thomas Kerin, Jean-Pierre Rupp, Ruben de Vries | Specification | Complete |
BIP-69 | Applications | Lexicographical Indexing of Transaction Inputs and Outputs | Kristov Atlas | Informational | Complete |
BIP-87 | Applications | Hierarchy for Deterministic Multisig Wallets | Robert Spigler | Specification | Complete |
BIP-88 | Applications | Hierarchical Deterministic Path Templates | Dmitry Petukhov | Informational | Complete |
BIP-111 | Peer Services | NODE_BLOOM service bit | Matt Corallo, Peter Todd | Specification | Complete |
BIP-129 | Applications | Bitcoin Secure Multisig Setup (BSMS) | Hugo Nguyen, Peter Gray, Marko Bencun, Aaron Chen, Rodolfo Novak | Specification | Complete |
BIP-325 | Applications | Signet | Karl-Johan Alm, Anthony Towns | Specification | Complete |
BIP-328 | Applications | Derivation Scheme for MuSig2 Aggregate Keys | Ava Chow | Informational | Complete |
BIP-352 | Applications | Silent Payments | josibake, Ruben Somsen | Specification | Complete |
BIP-373 | Applications | MuSig2 PSBT Fields | Ava Chow | Specification | Complete |
BIP-388 | Applications | Wallet Policies for Descriptor Wallets | Salvatore Ingala | Specification | Complete |
Number | Layer | Title | Owner | Type | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BIP-8 | Version bits with lock-in by height | Shaolin Fry, Luke Dashjr | Informational | Draft | |
BIP-38 | Applications | Passphrase-protected private key | Mike Caldwell, Aaron Voisine | Specification | Draft |
BIP-46 | Applications | Address Scheme for Timelocked Fidelity Bonds | Chris Belcher, Thebora Kompanioni | Specification | Draft |
BIP-52 | Consensus (hard fork) | Durable, Low Energy Bitcoin PoW | Michael Dubrovsky, Bogdan Penkovsky | Specification | Draft |
BIP-53 | Consensus (soft fork) | Disallow 64-byte transactions | Chris Stewart | Specification | Draft |
BIP-54 | Consensus (soft fork) | Consensus Cleanup | Antoine Poinsot, Matt Corallo | Specification | Draft |
BIP-77 | Applications | Async Payjoin | Dan Gould, Yuval Kogman | Specification | Draft |
BIP-78 | Applications | A Simple Payjoin Proposal | Nicolas Dorier | Specification | Draft |
BIP-93 | Applications | codex32: Checksummed SSSS-aware BIP32 seeds | Leon Olsson Curr and Pearlwort Sneed, Andrew Poelstra | Informational | Draft |
BIP-98 | Consensus (soft fork) | Fast Merkle Trees | Mark Friedenbach, Kalle Alm, BtcDrak | Specification | Draft |
BIP-116 | Consensus (soft fork) | MERKLEBRANCHVERIFY | Mark Friedenbach, Kalle Alm, BtcDrak | Specification | Draft |
BIP-117 | Consensus (soft fork) | Tail Call Execution Semantics | Mark Friedenbach, Kalle Alm, BtcDrak | Specification | Draft |
BIP-118 | Consensus (soft fork) | SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT for Taproot Scripts | Christian Decker, Anthony Towns | Specification | Draft |
BIP-119 | Consensus (soft fork) | CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY | Jeremy Rubin | Specification | Draft |
BIP-122 | Applications | URI scheme for Blockchain references / exploration | Marco Pontello | Specification | Draft |
BIP-126 | Best Practices for Heterogeneous Input Script Transactions | Kristov Atlas | Informational | Draft | |
BIP-127 | Applications | Simple Proof-of-Reserves Transactions | Steven Roose | Specification | Draft |
BIP-136 | Applications | Bech32 Encoded Tx Position References | Велеслав, Jonas Schnelli, Daniel Pape | Informational | Draft |
BIP-155 | Peer Services | addrv2 message | Wladimir J. van der Laan | Specification | Draft |
BIP-157 | Peer Services | Client Side Block Filtering | Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Alex Akselrod, Jim Posen | Specification | Draft |
BIP-158 | Peer Services | Compact Block Filters for Light Clients | Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Alex Akselrod | Specification | Draft |
BIP-172 | Applications | Define Bitcoin Subunits as Satoshis | OceanSlim | Informational | Draft |
BIP-176 | Bits Denomination | Jimmy Song | Informational | Draft | |
BIP-177 | Redefine Bitcoin's Base Unit | John Carvalho | Informational | Draft | |
BIP-178 | Applications | Version Extended WIF | Karl-Johan Alm | Specification | Draft |
BIP-179 | Name for payment recipient identifiers | Emil Engler, Luke Dashjr | Informational | Draft | |
BIP-197 | Applications | Hashed Time-Locked Collateral Contract | Matthew Black, Tony Cai | Specification | Draft |
BIP-300 | Consensus (soft fork) | Hashrate Escrows (Consensus layer) | Paul Sztorc, CryptAxe | Specification | Draft |
BIP-301 | Consensus (soft fork) | Blind Merged Mining (Consensus layer) | Paul Sztorc, CryptAxe | Specification | Draft |
BIP-310 | Applications | Stratum protocol extensions | Pavel Moravec, Jan Čapek | Informational | Draft |
BIP-320 | nVersion bits for general purpose use | BtcDrak | Specification | Draft | |
BIP-321 | Applications | URI Scheme | Matt Corallo | Specification | Draft |
BIP-322 | Applications | Generic Signed Message Format | Karl-Johan Alm | Specification | Draft |
BIP-326 | Applications | Anti-fee-sniping in taproot transactions | Chris Belcher | Informational | Draft |
BIP-329 | Applications | Wallet Labels Export Format | Craig Raw | Informational | Draft |
BIP-330 | Peer Services | Transaction announcements reconciliation | Gleb Naumenko, Pieter Wuille | Specification | Draft |
BIP-331 | Peer Services | Ancestor Package Relay | Gloria Zhao | Specification | Draft |
BIP-337 | API/RPC | Compressed Transactions | Tom Briar | Specification | Draft |
BIP-347 | Consensus (soft fork) | OP_CAT in Tapscript | Ethan Heilman, Armin Sabouri | Specification | Draft |
BIP-348 | Consensus (soft fork) | CHECKSIGFROMSTACK | Brandon Black, Jeremy Rubin | Specification | Draft |
BIP-349 | Consensus (soft fork) | OP_INTERNALKEY | Brandon Black, Jeremy Rubin | Specification | Draft |
BIP-351 | Applications | Private Payments | Alfred Hodler, Clark Moody | Informational | Draft |
BIP-353 | Applications | DNS Payment Instructions | Matt Corallo, Bastien Teinturier | Specification | Draft |
BIP-372 | Applications | Pay-to-contract tweak fields for PSBT | Maxim Orlovsky | Specification | Draft |
BIP-374 | Applications | Discrete Log Equality Proofs | Andrew Toth, Ruben Somsen, Sebastian Falbesoner | Specification | Draft |
BIP-375 | Applications | Sending Silent Payments with PSBTs | Andrew Toth, Ava Chow, josibake | Specification | Draft |
BIP-379 | Applications | Miniscript | Pieter Wuille, Andrew Poelstra, Sanket Kanjalkar, Antoine Poinsot, Ava Chow | Informational | Draft |
BIP-389 | Applications | Multipath Descriptor Key Expressions | Ava Chow | Informational | Draft |
BIP-390 | Applications | musig() Descriptor Key Expression | Ava Chow | Informational | Draft |
BIP-431 | Applications | Topology Restrictions for Pinning | Gloria Zhao | Informational | Draft |
BIP-443 | Consensus (soft fork) | OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY | Salvatore Ingala | Specification | Draft |
Number | Layer | Title | Owner | Type | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BIP-1 | BIP Purpose and Guidelines | Amir Taaki | Process | Closed | |
BIP-2 | BIP process, revised | Luke Dashjr | Process | Closed | |
BIP-10 | Applications | Multi-Sig Transaction Distribution | Alan Reiner | Informational | Closed |
BIP-12 | Consensus (soft fork) | OP_EVAL | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Closed |
BIP-15 | Applications | Aliases | Amir Taaki | Specification | Closed |
BIP-17 | Consensus (soft fork) | OP_CHECKHASHVERIFY (CHV) | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Closed |
BIP-19 | Applications | M-of-N Standard Transactions (Low SigOp) | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Closed |
BIP-20 | Applications | URI Scheme | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Closed |
BIP-33 | Peer Services | Stratized Nodes | Amir Taaki | Specification | Closed |
BIP-36 | Peer Services | Custom Services | Stefan Thomas | Specification | Closed |
BIP-60 | Peer Services | Fixed Length "version" Message (Relay-Transactions Field) | Amir Taaki | Specification | Closed |
BIP-62 | Consensus (soft fork) | Dealing with malleability | Pieter Wuille | Specification | Closed |
BIP-64 | Peer Services | getutxo message | Mike Hearn | Specification | Closed |
BIP-74 | Applications | Allow zero value OP_RETURN in Payment Protocol | Toby Padilla | Specification | Closed |
BIP-79 | Applications | Bustapay :: a practical coinjoin protocol | Ryan Havar | Informational | Closed |
BIP-80 | Hierarchy for Non-Colored Voting Pool Deterministic Multisig Wallets | Justus Ranvier, Jimmy Song | Informational | Closed | |
BIP-81 | Hierarchy for Colored Voting Pool Deterministic Multisig Wallets | Justus Ranvier, Jimmy Song | Informational | Closed | |
BIP-83 | Applications | Dynamic Hierarchical Deterministic Key Trees | Eric Lombrozo | Specification | Closed |
BIP-99 | Motivation and deployment of consensus rule changes ([soft/hard]forks) | Jorge Timón | Informational | Closed | |
BIP-100 | Consensus (hard fork) | Dynamic maximum block size by miner vote | Jeff Garzik, Tom Harding, Dagur Valberg Johannsson | Specification | Closed |
BIP-101 | Consensus (hard fork) | Increase maximum block size | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Closed |
BIP-102 | Consensus (hard fork) | Block size increase to 2MB | Jeff Garzik | Specification | Closed |
BIP-103 | Consensus (hard fork) | Block size following technological growth | Pieter Wuille | Specification | Closed |
BIP-104 | Consensus (hard fork) | 'Block75' - Max block size like difficulty | t.khan | Specification | Closed |
BIP-105 | Consensus (hard fork) | Consensus based block size retargeting algorithm | BtcDrak | Specification | Closed |
BIP-106 | Consensus (hard fork) | Dynamically Controlled Bitcoin Block Size Max Cap | Upal Chakraborty | Specification | Closed |
BIP-107 | Consensus (hard fork) | Dynamic limit on the block size | Washington Y. Sanchez | Specification | Closed |
BIP-109 | Consensus (hard fork) | Two million byte size limit with sigop and sighash limits | Gavin Andresen | Specification | Closed |
BIP-114 | Consensus (soft fork) | Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree | Johnson Lau | Specification | Closed |
BIP-115 | Consensus (soft fork) | Generic anti-replay protection using Script | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Closed |
BIP-120 | Applications | Proof of Payment | Kalle Rosenbaum | Specification | Closed |
BIP-121 | Applications | Proof of Payment URI scheme | Kalle Rosenbaum | Specification | Closed |
BIP-124 | Applications | Hierarchical Deterministic Script Templates | Eric Lombrozo, William Swanson | Informational | Closed |
BIP-131 | Consensus (hard fork) | "Coalescing Transaction" Specification (wildcard inputs) | Chris Priest | Specification | Closed |
BIP-132 | Committee-based BIP Acceptance Process | Andy Chase | Process | Closed | |
BIP-134 | Consensus (hard fork) | Flexible Transactions | Tom Zander | Specification | Closed |
BIP-135 | Generalized version bits voting | Sancho Panza | Informational | Closed | |
BIP-140 | Consensus (soft fork) | Normalized TXID | Christian Decker | Specification | Closed |
BIP-142 | Applications | Address Format for Segregated Witness | Johnson Lau | Specification | Closed |
BIP-146 | Consensus (soft fork) | Dealing with signature encoding malleability | Johnson Lau, Pieter Wuille | Specification | Closed |
BIP-149 | Consensus (soft fork) | Segregated Witness (second deployment) | Shaolin Fry | Specification | Closed |
BIP-150 | Peer Services | Peer Authentication | Jonas Schnelli | Specification | Closed |
BIP-151 | Peer Services | Peer-to-Peer Communication Encryption | Jonas Schnelli | Specification | Closed |
BIP-154 | Peer Services | Rate Limiting via peer specified challenges | Karl-Johan Alm | Specification | Closed |
BIP-156 | Peer Services | Dandelion - Privacy Enhancing Routing | Brad Denby, Andrew Miller, Giulia Fanti, Surya Bakshi, Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, Pramod Viswanath | Specification | Closed |
BIP-171 | Applications | Currency/exchange rate information API | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Closed |
BIP-175 | Applications | Pay to Contract Protocol | Omar Shibli, Nicholas Gregory | Informational | Closed |
BIP-180 | Peer Services | Block size/weight fraud proof | Luke Dashjr | Specification | Closed |
BIP-199 | Applications | Hashed Time-Locked Contract transactions | Sean Bowe, Daira Hopwood | Specification | Closed |
BIP-338 | Peer Services | Disable transaction relay message | Suhas Daftuar | Specification | Closed |
BIP-345 | Consensus (soft fork) | OP_VAULT | James O'Beirne, Greg Sanders | Specification | Closed |