User Age Verification for Wallet Software #2128

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   Brigson commented at 3:43 am on March 21, 2026: none

   User Age Verification for Wallet Software
2. Create bip-1043.mediawiki

   User Age Verification for Wallet Software

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   Create bip-1043.mediawiki
   User Age Verification for Wallet Software bip-1043
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   Nyanraltotlapun commented at 4:23 pm on March 21, 2026: none

   Need to specify side loading mechanism for binaries in order to connect with ID check services. Need to be another BIP tho.
8. in bip-1043.mediawiki:18 in eb26be98fb

   13+compliance with regional regulations such as California AB-1043.
   14+
   15+## Motivation
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   17+A growing number of jurisdictions require software to implement age 
   18+verification mechanisms. A standardized field would allow ecosystem-wide 
   

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   jlopp commented at 5:54 pm on March 21, 2026:

   “A standardized field would allow ecosystem-wide compliance” - what? This is nonsensical. Wallets store their data in non-standardized formats.
9. in bip-1043.mediawiki:25 in eb26be98fb

   20+The field is self-declared — it is the responsibility of the consuming 
   21+application to determine whether further verification is required.
   22+
   23+## Specification
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   25+Wallet implementations MAY include a `birthDate` field formatted as 
   

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   jlopp commented at 5:55 pm on March 21, 2026:

   “birthDate” is already used by some wallets to indicate the date the wallet was created, in order to provide a hint to blockchain scanning services that there’s no point scanning for transaction activity before that point.
10. 
    jlopp commented at 5:56 pm on March 21, 2026: contributor

    I don’t see how adding a single field to already non standardized wallet storage formats is worthy of a BIP.
11. 
    murchandamus commented at 9:18 pm on March 21, 2026: member

    I’m closing this PR, because this proposal has not been submitted to the mailing list for discussion previously, the document has various formatting issues, and it self-assigned a number.
12. murchandamus closed this on Mar 21, 2026

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