Five Bitcoin developers have been nominated as the new editors of the Bitcoin network's Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP).
Alongside Luke Dashjr, the newly nominated BIP editors will be tasked with editing proposals for improvements to the Bitcoin software, evaluating proposals to determine whether they meet the criteria to become BIPs, and generally expediting the approval process for proposals, which also entails the task of merging them into the GitHub repository.
The group of new BIPs editors is made up of Bryan Bishop, co-founder of Custodia Bank; Murch and Ruben Somsen, co-hosts of the bitdevs.org mailing list; Olaoluwa Osuntokun, CTO of Lightning Labs; and “Jonatack”, Bitcoin Core contributor.
These 5 developers volunteered to do the BIP editing work and were nominated for the job through a process led by Ava Chow, a developer of the Bitcoin network.
Chow reported that the nomination process for new BIP editors was ending on Monday, April 22, after several months of debate and that so far the process had gone without any explicit objections to any of the nominees, nor any new suggestions. In addition to this, “Jonatack” recently made an update to the Bitcoin repositories on GitHub.
Greater efficiency in Bitcoin development
The integration of new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) editors is expected to significantly improve the efficiency of blockchain network development.
So far, Luke dashjr He was the only developer in charge of this task, which, although it goes unnoticed by many users of the Bitcoin ecosystem, is an arduous task that requires a lot of time and effort.
Since 2011, Dashjr has been contributing significantly to the development and operation of the Bitcoin network, being a key player in various proposals such as the BFGMiner miner, the Segwit protocol, and the introduction of several BIPs, specifically, BIP-2, BIP-22, and BIP-23. The first of these, BIP-2, represents a substantial improvement on the proposal presented by Amir Taaki, who originally created the BIPs, taking inspiration from the Python enhancement whitepaper, PEP.
The BIP-2Dashjr highlighted that Bitcoin Improvement Proposals are technical documents that describe new features, improvements, or updates to the network code, thus serving the crypto community to provide information about the ecosystem and its evolution.
For all these reasons, Dashjr proposed recognizing BIPs as a design standard for Bitcoin and making it the primary mechanism for proposing new features and improvements to the blockchain.
What is Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)?
As mentioned above, BIPs are the Bitcoin developers' standard by which they can submit improvements or changes to the Bitcoin code in order to fix a new issue or optimize the functioning of the network. But, in addition to serving to submit future updates, BIPs, as described by Dashjr, also allow for documenting the consensus decisions that the Bitcoin developer and user community has made about the network, since they are kept as text files in the repositories.
Currently, BIPs in Bitcoin are submitted to describe changes that affect Bitcoin implementations, to report on any new developments or issues in the design of the blockchain network, and to describe improvements and future updates.
Despite their usefulness in organizing the work involved in Bitcoin development, many perceive the submission, editing, and approval of these documents as a process that slows down the construction of the blockchain, as only one person has been handling this to date. Now, with 5 new editors set to join, the Bitcoin ecosystem could see more BIPs, especially now that developers are focusing on unlocking new use cases for the top blockchain by market cap, such as DeFi, NFTs, and memecoins.
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