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Those proposing changes should consider that ultimately consent may rest with the consensus of the Bitcoin users (see also: [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Economic_majority economic majority]).

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width: auto; text-align: center; font-size: smaller; table-layout: fixed;"
!Number
!Title
!Owner
!Status
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0001.mediawiki|1]]
| BIP Purpose and Guidelines
| Amir Taaki
| Active
|-
| [[bip-0010.mediawiki|10]]
| Multi-Sig Transaction Distribution
| Alan Reiner
| Draft
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0011.mediawiki|11]]
| M-of-N Standard Transactions
| Gavin Andresen
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0012.mediawiki|12]]
| OP_EVAL
| Gavin Andresen
| Withdrawn
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0013.mediawiki|13]]
| Address Format for pay-to-script-hash
| Gavin Andresen
| Final
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0014.mediawiki|14]]
| Protocol Version and User Agent
| Amir Taaki, Patrick Strateman
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0015.mediawiki|15]]
| Aliases
| Amir Taaki
| Withdrawn
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0016.mediawiki|16]]
| Pay To Script Hash
| Gavin Andresen
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0017.mediawiki|17]]
| OP_CHECKHASHVERIFY (CHV)
| Luke Dashjr
| Withdrawn
|-
| [[bip-0018.mediawiki|18]]
| hashScriptCheck
| Luke Dashjr
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0019.mediawiki|19]]
| M-of-N Standard Transactions (Low SigOp)
| Luke Dashjr
| Draft
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0020.mediawiki|20]]
| URI Scheme
| Luke Dashjr
| Replaced
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0021.mediawiki|21]]
| URI Scheme
| Nils Schneider, Matt Corallo
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0022.mediawiki|22]]
| getblocktemplate - Fundamentals
| Luke Dashjr
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0023.mediawiki|23]]
| getblocktemplate - Pooled Mining
| Luke Dashjr
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0030.mediawiki|30]]
| Duplicate transactions
| Pieter Wuille
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0031.mediawiki|31]]
| Pong message
| Mike Hearn
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0032.mediawiki|32]]
| Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets
| Pieter Wuille
| Accepted
|-
| [[bip-0033.mediawiki|33]]
| Stratized Nodes
| Amir Taaki
| Draft
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0034.mediawiki|34]]
| Block v2, Height in coinbase
| Gavin Andresen
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0035.mediawiki|35]]
| mempool message
| Jeff Garzik
| Accepted
|-
| [[bip-0036.mediawiki|36]]
| Custom Services
| Stefan Thomas
| Draft
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0037.mediawiki|37]]
| Bloom filtering
| Mike Hearn and Matt Corallo
| Accepted
|-
| [[bip-0038.mediawiki|38]]
| Passphrase-protected private key
| Mike Caldwell
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0039.mediawiki|39]]
| Deterministic key mnemonics
| Slush
| BIP number allocated
|-
| 40
| Stratum wire protocol
| Slush
| BIP number allocated
|-
| 41
| Stratum mining protocol
| Slush
| BIP number allocated
<!-- 42-49 reserved for stratum extensions -->
|-
| [[bip-0050.mediawiki|50]]
| March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem
| Gavin Andresen
| Draft
<!-- 50 series reserved for a group of post-mortems -->
|-
| [[bip-0060.mediawiki|60]]
| Fixed Length "version" Message (Relay-Transactions Field)
| Amir Taaki
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0070.mediawiki|70]]
| Payment protocol
| Gavin Andresen
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0071.mediawiki|71]]
| Payment protocol MIME types
| Gavin Andresen
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0072.mediawiki|72]]
| Payment protocol URIs
| Gavin Andresen
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0073.mediawiki|73]]
| Use "Accept" header with Payment Request URLs
| Stephen Pair
| Draft
|}

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