Amir Taaki

Author of 5 BIPs.

BIP 1: BIP Purpose and Guidelines: Closed. The original document that defined what a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal is and how one is written, discussed and accepted. Modeled on Python's proposal process, it gave the community a shared, public…
BIP 14: Protocol Version and User Agent: Deployed. Separates the version of the Bitcoin network protocol from the version of any one program, and adds a "user agent" label identifying the software a node runs. As alternative clients appeared, this…
BIP 15: Aliases: Closed. Explored ways to replace long, hard-to-remember Bitcoin addresses with human-friendly names, much as domain names stand in for numeric internet addresses. Several naming approaches were compared;…
BIP 33: Stratized Nodes: Closed. Proposed specialized node roles so lightweight clients could rely on full nodes that serve them only the data they need. It aimed to keep Bitcoin usable for ordinary users as the blockchain grew too…
BIP 60: Fixed Length "version" Message (Relay-Transactions Field): Closed. Proposed making the "relay transactions" flag a fixed, always-present part of the initial handshake message rather than an optional extra. The optional field, introduced by BIP 37, made message…