Curious if this is an unpopular opinion:
It was with too hard to get a BIP processed in the past and now people put BIPs on a pedestal.
But BIPs are author documents. Especially in Draft stage, they do not present community consensus — they're the authors’ personal recommendation to the Bitcoin community.
It seems good to me that we get a few controversial BIPs. It clears up that it's still the readers’ responsibility to make up their mind.
Yeah, makes sense to me. I had to be reminded not that long ago that it's just a formalized idea, not a road map
I'm gonna put one in to change the name to Bitties and titties
There is a bit of a range between controversial and unserious. ;)
Even more controversial opinion: wallet standards and best practices shouldn't be BIPs. This even includes things like BIP32 let alone 39, 44 and family, let alone tons of others.
They have no relevance to the Bitcoin protocol.
I still think there's immense value in such standardization... just that it should be somewhere else.
I agree. Having a bip number, literally means that, you have a bip number. Bip editors are't there to decide what have and what doesn't have consensus.
The only thing I don't like about the bips repo is the weird numbering. But that's just my OCD talking 😂
