Jonas Schnelli

Author of 5 BIPs.

BIP 136: Bech32 Encoded Tx Position References: Draft. Defines "TxRef," a short, human-friendly code that points to a confirmed transaction by its location in the blockchain (block and position) rather than by its long ID. It uses the same…
BIP 150: Peer Authentication: Closed. Describes a way for Bitcoin nodes to prove their identity to trusted peers, for example so an operator can securely connect their own wallet to their own node. It is designed so that outsiders…
BIP 151: Peer-to-Peer Communication Encryption: Closed. Proposed encrypting the traffic between Bitcoin nodes so that internet providers and eavesdroppers could not easily read or tamper with it. This early design was later superseded by the version 2…
BIP 159: NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED service bit: Deployed. Defines a signal that pruned nodes, which keep only recent blocks to save disk space, can use to advertise that they can serve recent history. This lets pruned nodes contribute more to the network…
BIP 324: Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol: Deployed. Introduces a new, encrypted way for Bitcoin nodes to talk to each other, so internet providers and passive observers cannot read or easily tamper with the traffic. It also slightly reduces bandwidth…