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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.

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]).

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!Number
!Title
!Owner
!Type
!Status
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0001.mediawiki|1]]
| BIP Purpose and Guidelines
| Amir Taaki
| Process
| Active
|-
| [[bip-0009.mediawiki|9]]
| Version bits with timeout and delay
| Pieter Wuille, Peter Todd, Greg Maxwell, Rusty Russell
| Informational
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0010.mediawiki|10]]
| Multi-Sig Transaction Distribution
| Alan Reiner
| Informational
| Withdrawn
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0011.mediawiki|11]]
| M-of-N Standard Transactions
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0012.mediawiki|12]]
| OP_EVAL
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Withdrawn
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0013.mediawiki|13]]
| Address Format for pay-to-script-hash
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Final
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0014.mediawiki|14]]
| Protocol Version and User Agent
| Amir Taaki, Patrick Strateman
| Standard
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0015.mediawiki|15]]
| Aliases
| Amir Taaki
| Standard
| Deferred
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0016.mediawiki|16]]
| Pay To Script Hash
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Final
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0017.mediawiki|17]]
| OP_CHECKHASHVERIFY (CHV)
| Luke Dashjr
| Standard
| Withdrawn
|-
| [[bip-0018.mediawiki|18]]
| hashScriptCheck
| Luke Dashjr
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0019.mediawiki|19]]
| M-of-N Standard Transactions (Low SigOp)
| Luke Dashjr
| Standard
| Draft
|- style="background-color: #ffcfcf"
| [[bip-0020.mediawiki|20]]
| URI Scheme
| Luke Dashjr
| Standard
| Replaced
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0021.mediawiki|21]]
| URI Scheme
| Nils Schneider, Matt Corallo
| Standard
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0022.mediawiki|22]]
| getblocktemplate - Fundamentals
| Luke Dashjr
| Standard
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0023.mediawiki|23]]
| getblocktemplate - Pooled Mining
| Luke Dashjr
| Standard
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0030.mediawiki|30]]
| Duplicate transactions
| Pieter Wuille
| Standard
| Final
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0031.mediawiki|31]]
| Pong message
| Mike Hearn
| Standard
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0032.mediawiki|32]]
| Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets
| Pieter Wuille
| Informational
| Accepted
|-
| [[bip-0033.mediawiki|33]]
| Stratized Nodes
| Amir Taaki
| Standard
| Draft
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0034.mediawiki|34]]
| Block v2, Height in coinbase
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Accepted
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0035.mediawiki|35]]
| mempool message
| Jeff Garzik
| Standard
| Accepted
|-
| [[bip-0036.mediawiki|36]]
| Custom Services
| Stefan Thomas
| Standard
| Draft
|- style="background-color: #cfffcf"
| [[bip-0037.mediawiki|37]]
| Bloom filtering
| Mike Hearn and Matt Corallo
| Standard
| Accepted
|-
| [[bip-0038.mediawiki|38]]
| Passphrase-protected private key
| Mike Caldwell
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0039.mediawiki|39]]
| Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys
| Slush
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| 40
| Stratum wire protocol
| Slush
| Standard
| BIP number allocated
|-
| 41
| Stratum mining protocol
| Slush
| Standard
| BIP number allocated
|-
| [[bip-0042.mediawiki|42]]
| A finite monetary supply for Bitcoin
| Pieter Wuille
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0043.mediawiki|43]]
| Purpose Field for Deterministic Wallets
| Slush
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0044.mediawiki|44]]
| Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets
| Slush
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0045.mediawiki|45]]
| Structure for Deterministic P2SH Multisignature Wallets
| Manuel Araoz
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0047.mediawiki|47]]
| Reusable Payment Codes for Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets
| Justus Ranvier
| Informational
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0050.mediawiki|50]]
| March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem
| Gavin Andresen
| Informational
| Draft
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|-
| [[bip-0060.mediawiki|60]]
| Fixed Length "version" Message (Relay-Transactions Field)
| Amir Taaki
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0061.mediawiki|61]]
| "reject" P2P message
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Final
|-
| [[bip-0062.mediawiki|62]]
| Dealing with malleability
| Pieter Wuille
| Standard
| Withdrawn
|-
| 63
| Stealth Addresses
| Peter Todd
| Standard
| BIP number allocated
|-
| [[bip-0064.mediawiki|64]]
| getutxos message
| Mike Hearn
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0065.mediawiki|65]]
| OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY
| Peter Todd
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0066.mediawiki|66]]
| Strict DER signatures
| Pieter Wuille
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0067.mediawiki|67]]
| Deterministic P2SH multi-signature addresses
| Thomas Kerin
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0068.mediawiki|68]]
| Relative lock-time through consensus-enforced sequence numbers
| Mark Friedenbach, BtcDrak and Nicolas Dorier
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0069.mediawiki|69]]
| Lexicographical Indexing of Transaction Inputs and Outputs
| Kristov Atlas
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0070.mediawiki|70]]
| Payment protocol
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Final
|-
| [[bip-0071.mediawiki|71]]
| Payment protocol MIME types
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Final
|-
| [[bip-0072.mediawiki|72]]
| Payment protocol URIs
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Final
|-
| [[bip-0073.mediawiki|73]]
| Use "Accept" header with Payment Request URLs
| Stephen Pair
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0099.mediawiki|99]]
| Motivation and deployment of consensus rule changes
| Jorge Timón
| Informational | Process
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0101.mediawiki|101]]
| Increase maximum block size
| Gavin Andresen
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0102.mediawiki|102]]
| Block size increase to 2MB
| Jeff Garzik
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0103.mediawiki|103]]
| Block size following technological growth
| Pieter Wuille
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0105.mediawiki|105]]
| Consensus based block size retargeting algorithm
| BtcDrak
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0106.mediawiki|106]]
| Dynamically Controlled Bitcoin Block Size Max Cap
| Upal Chakraborty
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0111.mediawiki|111]]
| NODE_BLOOM service bit
| Matt Corallo and Peter Todd
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0112.mediawiki|112]]
| CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY
| BtcDrak and Mark Friedenbach
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0113.mediawiki|113]]
| Median time-past as endpoint for lock-time calculations
| Thomas Kerin and Mark Friedenbach
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0120.mediawiki|120]]
| Proof of Payment
| Kalle Rosenbaum
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0121.mediawiki|121]]
| Proof of Payment URI scheme
| Kalle Rosenbaum
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0123.mediawiki|123]]
| BIP Classification
| Eric Lombrozo
| Informational
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-0130.mediawiki|130]]
| sendheaders message 
| Suhas Daftuar
| Standard
| Draft
|-
| [[bip-opt-in-rbf.mediawiki|FIXME]]
| Opt-in Full Replace-by-Fee Signaling
| David Harding, Peter Todd
| Standard
| Draft
|}

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