Bitcoin Improvement Proposals

People wishing to submit BIPs, first should propose their idea or document to the mailing list. After discussion they should email Amir Taaki <genjix@riseup.net>. 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 Active. For a BIP to become Active requires the mutual consent of the community.

Number	Title	Owner	Status
1	BIP Purpose and Guidelines	Amir Taaki	Active
10	Multi-Sig Transaction Distribution	Alan Reiner	Draft
11	M-of-N Standard Transactions	Gavin Andresen	Accepted
12	OP_EVAL	Gavin Andresen	Withdrawn
13	Address Format for pay-to-script-hash	Gavin Andresen	Draft
14	Protocol Version and User Agent	Amir Taaki, Patrick Strateman	Accepted
15	Aliases	Amir Taaki	Deferred
16	Pay To Script Hash	Gavin Andresen	Draft
17	OP_CHECKHASHVERIFY (CHV)	Luke Dashjr	Draft
18	RESERVED
20	URI Scheme	Luke Dashjr, Nils Schneider	Draft

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