BIP 0011

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History

BIP 0011

Long title	M-of-N Standard Transactions
Type	Standards Track
BIPN	11
Author(s)	Gavin Andresen
Status	Accepted
History
Proposition	October 18, 2011
BIPN allocation	October 18, 2011
Finalization	December 13, 2011
Acceptance	December 13, 2011

BIP 0011 was the first standard Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, authored by Gavin Andresen after being described by ByteCoin on BitcoinTalk two weeks earlier. ByteCoin had referenced an earlier thread by Mike Caldwell, which proposed modifying OP_CHECKSIG for multisignature transactions.