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August 19, 2011Protocol & scalingResearch & proposalsdocumented

The BIP process gives Bitcoin a way to change

BIP 1 defined how proposals to alter Bitcoin would be written, discussed and recorded.

Modelled on Python's enhancement proposals, it established that changes are documented in public before they are deployed and that no one holds formal authority to approve them. The absence of a decider was the point.