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Bitcoin has no CEO. It has BIPs.

A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal is a design document describing a change to Bitcoin, or a convention for the software built around it. Under BIP 3, each proposal is Draft (being written), Complete (finished, awaiting adoption), Deployed (live) or Closed (withdrawn, rejected or replaced). Types are Specification, Informational and Process.

Impact and core BIPs

Each BIP has an impact score from 0 to 100 showing how it ranks against the rest, mostly by how many other BIPs reference it. The 20 live BIPs with the highest impact are marked as core BIPs.

For developers and AI agents

  • llms.txt: guide for language models
  • JSON API (OpenAPI)
  • MCP server: https://bipexplorer.com/mcp
  • Every BIP as Markdown: /bip/<number>.md