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Bitcoin Dev Archive

The bitcoin-dev mailing list, readable

The mailing list is where changes to Bitcoin get proposed and argued over: the block size, SegWit, Taproot, covenants, the quantum question. This is a mirror of the public archive since 2011, one page per thread, with the messages as they were sent. It is refreshed every day.

24,698
messages
3,292
threads
1,419
people posting
16
years

Recently active

Threads with the newest messages. Feed.

  1. Bitcoin Core security policy update

    1 message, 22 Oct 2026. Antoine Poinsot

  2. Exposure-aware transaction construction for wallets

    1 message, 19 Oct 2026. Zeeshan Ali Khan

  3. btc-verified October Update: Connecting Map to Territory

    1 message, 19 Oct 2026. Keagan McClelland

  4. P2P UTXO Set Sharing

    30 messages, 5 May to 15 Oct 2026. Eric Voskuil (12), Fabian (8), Anthony Towns (3), Antoine Riard (2), Josie Baker (2), Saint Wenhao, sadiq Ismail, Sjors Provoost

  5. Lichen: L2s In CHannels ENforced on bitcoin

    3 messages, 11 to 12 Oct 2026. waxwing/ AdamISZ (2), Dustin Ray

  6. Flame: confidential transactions with Bitcoin proof-of-burn consensus

    3 messages, 30 Sep to 8 Oct 2026. Oleg Andreev OOO (2), waxwing/ AdamISZ

  7. RE BIP 300: 26% censoring attack

    1 message, 6 Oct 2026. Ori Newman

  8. [bitcoindev]

    1 message, 6 Oct 2026. Luke Carriere

  9. LN-GAP : Lightning governed by arbitrary programs

    1 message, 4 Oct 2026. waxwing/ AdamISZ

  10. DropKick ⚽️ - A minimal commit/reveal PQ rescue protocol

    5 messages, 20 Aug to 4 Oct 2026. conduition (3), Alex, Antoine Riard

  11. Getting BIP54 past the finish line

    1 message, 2 Oct 2026. Antoine Riard

  12. MHFE: memory-hard encryption of BIP39 backups into 24 words — request for review

    1 message, 1 Oct 2026. Sergei Semenov

  13. Convention for tagged hash tags in BIPs

    2 messages, 22 to 29 Sep 2026. Fabian, Sjors Provoost

  14. A Post-Quantum Path for BIP 324

    8 messages, 5 May to 24 Sep 2026. Olaoluwa Osuntokun (3), conduition (2), Ethan Heilman, Jonas Schnelli, Liam Gilligan

  15. BIP324 One-Byte Message Type ID Alias Assignment

    3 messages, 20 to 24 Sep 2026. Anthony Towns (2), Peter Todd

  16. QSAVE post-quantum solution for non-migrated coins

    1 message, 22 Sep 2026. James T

  17. Bitcoin Core 32.0rc2 release candidate is available

    1 message, 22 Sep 2026. Sebastian Kung

  18. No burn, Quantum Migration Proposal, Quantum Secure Asset Verification & Escrow (QSAVE)

    9 messages, 4 Aug 2025 to 21 Sep 2026. James T (4), conduition (3), Javier Mateos, Erik Aronesty

  19. SHRINCS: an efficient hash-based signature scheme for Bitcoin (first draft)

    7 messages, 26 Aug to 19 Sep 2026. conduition (4), Murch (2), Antoine Riard

  20. Standardizing public key exposure classification for existing outputs

    5 messages, 4 to 18 Sep 2026. duncan0k (4), conduition

The big debates

The longest threads in the archive.

  1. Block Size Increase 2015, 116
  2. moving the default display to mbtc 2013, 112
  3. Block size following technological growth 2015, 111
  4. Aliases 2011, 107
  5. Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY! 2015, 101
  6. New BIP32 structure 2014, 100
  7. Adding New BIP Editors 2024, 100
  8. Fees and the block-finding process 2015, 93
  9. Presenting a BIP for Shamir's Secret Sharing of Bitcoin private keys 2014, 90
  10. Coinbase reallocation to discourage Finney attacks 2014, 90
  11. Stealth Addresses 2014, 88
  12. Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts 2012, 87

By topic

37 curated topics, each a timeline of its threads with the BIPs and chapters that go with it. All topics.

The people who wrote it

The most prolific of 1,419 names, each with a page. All people. Every BIP the list discussed has one too.

Browse by year

2015 was the loudest year. All the numbers.

About this mirror

The list lives at groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev, where anyone can subscribe and post. Its archive of record is the public-inbox at gnusha.org, kept by Bryan Bishop, with a second copy at mirror.b10c.me. Both can be cloned with git, and that is where this mirror comes from. The oldest message here is from 12 Jun 2011; the newest from 22 Oct 2026.

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