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@luke-jr luke-jr commented Nov 15, 2025

This addresses several issues identified in my review of BIP 3. Other unaddressed issues are being posted to the mailing list for further discussion.

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Concept ACK

provided it is the original work of its authors and the content is of high quality, e.g. does not waste
the community's time. No content may be generated by AI/LLMs and authors must proactively disclose
up-front any use of AI/LLMs.
the community's time. No content may be generated by AI/LLMs.
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Would prefer that authors be required to proactively disclose out of respect for the community's time (and that of the editors).

ideation phase, e.g., by generating substantial public discussion and commentary from diverse contributors, by
independent Bitcoin projects working on adopting the proposal, or by the authors working for an extended period toward
improving the proposal based on community feedback, will be assigned a number by a BIP Editor. A number may be
ideation phase, will be assigned a number by a BIP Editor.
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Noting here that I would like to think about this more. It seems to me that the bar for numbers might be too low and that standards on quality/proof of work, soundness, completeness, and originality may need reinforcing in light of the ease of lobbing LLM-generated slop or hallucinations over the fence at us.

For each new BIP pull request that comes in, an editor checks the following:

* The idea has been previously proposed by one of the authors to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List and discussed there
* The idea has been previously proposed to the Bitcoin Development Mailing List and discussed there
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Probably best to keep this as-is to avoid other people sniping/jumping on an idea.

Further, not only "The idea" but also the proposed draft for review on the author's own repository.

We're seeing new, out-of-the-blue github accounts (often with no established record or proof of work in the space) opening a PR directly to the BIPs, skipping the steps, and then using the "fait accompli" to protest the PR being closed.

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