Bitcoin Unlimited Improvement Proposal Archive and related documentation
To submit a BUIP please post your proposal at https://bitco.in/forum/forums/bitcoin-unlimited.15/ .
Once we agreed on the number to assign to your proposal and copy-editing it (if needed), your proposal will be voted by BU members. To pass, your proposal need to gather a majority BU members votes and at the same time reach the quorum (see https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/articles, art. 2 for more details)
This is the current list of submitted BUIPs.
| Number | Title | Proposer | Submit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BUIP001 | Extensions to the Bitcoin Client | Andrew Stone | 2015-11-26 | passed |
| BUIP002 | Multi-BIP Scaling Enabler | Andrew Clifford | 2015-12-30 | passed |
| BUIP003 | Andrew Quentson (Aquent) for Secretary | Andrew Quentson | 2015-12-30 | passed |
| BUIP004 | RBF/double spending support | Pete Waterland (inca) | 2015-12-31 | passed |
| BUIP005 | Settings information via coinbase-txn & user-agent | Andrew Clifford | 2015-12-31 (Revision 1, user-agent, 2016-01-07) | passed |
| BUIP006 | Blocktorrent – a torrent-style block data transport | freetrader | 2016-01-07 | closed |
| BUIP007 | Lee Adams (redditchampsys) for president | Lee Adams | 2016-01-09 | closed |
| BUIP008 | Vote Andrew Stone for Developer | Andrew Stone (thezerg) | 2016-01-09 | passed |
| BUIP009 | User-configurable public-key cryptography (let users choose from predefined cryptosystems) | Simon Liu | 2016-01-09 | draft |
| BUIP010 | Xtreme Thinblocks | Peter Tschipper | 2016-01-10 | passed |
| BUIP011 | Andrew Clifford for President | Andrew Clifford | 2016-01-12 | passed |
| BUIP012 | Vote Trevin Hofmann for President | Trevin Hofmann | 2016-01-13 | closed |
| BUIP013 | Upgrade alert system so that Bitcoin Unlimited can send message alerts to node | Simon Liu | 2016-01-14 (rev 2. 25 Jan 2016, rev 3. 26 Jan 2016) | passed |
| BUIP014 | Testing a Bitcoin Unlimited X-Relay Network for miners in mainland China | Andrew Clifford | 2016-03-03 | passed |
| BUIP015 | Decentralize mining with the FAIR PoW algorithm and an user-configurable PoW setting | Simon Liu | 2016-01-19 | draft |
| BUIP016 | Consensus with Classic on txn size limit | Andrew Clifford | 2016-01-20 | passed |
| BUIP017 | Datastream Compression | Peter Tschipper | 03/20/2016 | draft |
| BUIP018 | Bitnodes Seeding and User-Configurable DNS Seeds | Simon Liu | 2016-04-02 | passed |
| BUIP019 | New Members for Election #1 | Andrew Clifford | 2016-04-29 | passed |
| BUIP020 | Implement bit-0 soft-forks (BIPs 9,68,112,113) | freetrader | 2016-06-09 | withdrawn |
| BUIP021 | Proposal for implementation of node performance testing and safe block size estimation and broadcast | Peter Waterland | 2016-07-18 | draft |
| BUIP022 | XInv | Peter Tschipper | 2016-07-30 | draft |
| BUIP023 | Miner block creation latency optimization | Andrew Stone | 2016-08-1 | passed |
| BUIP024 | Extension Blocks with Address Sharding | Andrew Stone | 2016-08-03 | draft |
| BUIP025 | BU "Bronze Sponsor" at Scaling Bitcoin, Milan, Italy | Andrew Clifford | 2916-09-10 | passed |
| BUIP027 | Satoshi's Vision - Development & Scaling Conference | Andrew Clifford | 2016-09-31 | passed |
| BUIP028 | Candidacy for Secretary role - digitsu | Jerry Chan | 2016-09-03 | closed |
| BUIP029 | Vote Trevin Hofmann for Secretary | Trevin Hofmann | 2016-09-06 | closed |
| BUIP030 | Website updates | Jerry Chan | 2016-09-29 | closed |
| BUIP031 | New Members for Election #2 | Andrew Clifford (solex) | 2016-09-30 | passed |
| BUIP032 | Vote Peter R for Secretary | Peter Rizun (Peter R) | 2016-10-05 | passed |
| BUIP033 | Parallel Validation | Peter Tschipper | 2016-10-22 | passed |
| BUIP034 | Ecosystem Outreach for Onchain Scaling | Andrew Clifford (solex) | 2016-10-23 | passed |
| BUIP035 | New Bitcoin Unlimited Website | Peter Rizun (Peter R) | 2016-11-04 | passed |
| BUIP036 | New Members for Election #3 | Andrew Clifford | 2016-11-05 | passed |
| BUIP037 | Hardfork SegWit | Amaury SECHET | 2016-11-12 | draft |
| BUIP038 | Revert "sticky gate" | Tom Harding (Sponsor: freetrader) | 2016-11-27 | closed |
| BUIP039 | Upgrade via extension point | Amaury SÉCHET | 2016-12-04 | draft |
| BUIP040 | Emergent Consensus Parameters and Defaults for Large (>1MB) Blocks | Andrew Stone | 2016-12-05 | passed |
| BUIP041 | (BUIP038 Counter) Prevent Minority Hash Power From Injecting Very Large Blocks | Andrew Stone | 2016-12-07 | closed |
| BUIP042 | New Members for Election #4 | Andrew Clifford | 2016-12-16 | passed |
| BUIP043 | Exploring the Bitcoin Network | Dr Saralees Nadarajah, @S Nadarajah (Sponsor: Peter Rizun) | 2016-12-23 | closed |
| BUIP044 | Development Process | Amaury SÉCHET | 2017-01-09 | draft |
| BUIP045 | Unified addresses format for BUIP037 | Amaury SÉCHET | 2017-01-12 | draft |
| BUIP046 | Faster, Higher Quality Publication Process for the Bitcoin Research Journal Ledger | Christopher E. Wilmer (BU member, @chriswilmer) | 2017-02-17 | passed |
| BUIP047 | The Future of Bitcoin - Development & Scaling Conference | Antony Zegers (@mengerian) | 2017-02-23 | passed |
| BUIP048 | New Members for Election #5 | Andrew Clifford (@solex) | 2017-03-09 | passed |
| BUIP049 | Amend AoC to change membership period | Windowly | 2017-03-18 | draft |
| BUIP050 | Double yes with tie-break question | torusJKL | 2017-03-18 | draft |
| BUIP051 | Set up dedicated Continuous Integration | freetrader | 2017-04-15 | draft |