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                Block size according to technological growth.
              
          
Published as BIP 103
  

## btc-beyondip.txt
Beyond IP Transactions: towards a payment protocol
==================================================

IP transactions were originally introduced as a first "out-of-band" protocol
for negotiating a transaction output's public key. Being inconvenient and
insecure, they became obsolete, and recent versions of bitcoin don't support
them anymore.

The result is that static bitcoin addresses have become the most common way of
defining requested payments. This may be fine for anonymous donations, but is not
	Beyond IP Transactions: towards a payment protocol
	==================================================

	IP transactions were originally introduced as a first "out-of-band" protocol
	for negotiating a transaction output's public key. Being inconvenient and
	insecure, they became obsolete, and recent versions of bitcoin don't support
	them anymore.

	The result is that static bitcoin addresses have become the most common way of
	defining requested payments. This may be fine for anonymous donations, but is not