Bitcoin BIP Reference Guides Articles

BIP 128 guide to Draft timelock-recovery plan storage, presigned transaction pairs, relative delay, checksums, monitoring, cancellation and reorg safety.

BIP 433 guide to Draft keyless Pay to Anchor outputs, CPFP fee bumping, standardness, ephemeral dust, TRUC anti-pinning and wallet safety.

What is BIP-110? Learn what Bitcoin’s reduced-data soft-fork proposal restricted, why it was controversial and why it later closed.

What is a satoshi? Learn the exact Bitcoin unit relationship, how wallets display sats, where rounding causes mistakes and what Draft BIP 172 proposes.

BIP 177 guide to the Draft proposal for integer base-unit bitcoin displays, unchanged BTC meaning and supply, conversion rules, migration risks and testing.

BIP 374 guide to Draft 64-byte discrete-log equality proofs, generation, verification, auxiliary randomness, message binding, Silent Payments and testing.

BIP 321 guide to modern bitcoin URIs, address and query parsing, required parameters, payment methods, decimal amounts, proof of payment and user approval.

BIP 94 Testnet 4 guide covering its consensus exceptions, block-storm fix, time-warp protection, network parameters, compatibility and safe testing.

BIP 351 Private Payments made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 88 guide covering its Complete informational status, path constraints, alternatives, ranges, hardened markers, matching, parsing and wallet recovery safety.

BIP 85 guide covering its Deployed informational status, hardened paths, HMAC-SHA512 transformation, application indexes, backup concentration and test vectors.

BIP 197 guide covering its Draft status, two-script Bitcoin collateral, cross-chain secrets, loan, liquidation, seizure and refund periods, and failure risks.