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### What is a BIP?
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BIPs are improvement proposals for Bitcoin[^capitalization]. The main topic is information and technologies that support and expand the utility of the bitcoin
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BIPs are improvement proposals for Bitcoin. The main topic is information and technologies that support and expand the utility of the Bitcoin
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currency. Most BIPs provide a concise, self-contained, technical description of one new concept, feature, or standard.
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Some BIPs describe processes, implementation guidelines, best practices, incident reports (e.g.,
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[BIP 50](bip-0050.mediawiki)), or other information relevant to the Bitcoin community. However, any topics related to
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The scope of the BIPs
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repository is limited to BIPs that do not oppose the fundamental principle that Bitcoin constitutes a peer-to-peer
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electronic cash system for the bitcoin currency.
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electronic cash system for the Bitcoin currency.
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### BIP Ownership
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has frequently led to confusion, with authors using the date of opening the pull request, the date they started
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writing their proposal, the date of number assignment (as prescribed), or various other dates. Aligning the name of
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the header and the text in the preamble template with the descriptions will reduce the confusion.
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[^capitalization]: **When is Bitcoin capitalized and when is it lowercased?**
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This document uses capitalized Bitcoin to refer to the system, network and abstract concept, and only uses lowercase
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bitcoin to refer to units of the bitcoin currency.
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[^standard-track]: **Why was the Specification type introduced?**
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The definitions of Informational and Standards Track BIPs caused some confusion in the past. Due to Informational
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BIPs being described as optional, Standards Track BIPs were sometimes misunderstood to be generally recommended.

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