bip52: Update to Closed #2165

pull murchandamus wants to merge 1 commits into bitcoin:master from murchandamus:bip52-closed changing 2 files +8 −6

murchandamus commented at 10:20 PM on May 20, 2026: member

This proposal appears abandoned, as it has not had any updates in over four years, and cursory search did not produce any public discussions of it since it was published either.

cc: @pkvk
murchandamus added the label Metadata Update on May 20, 2026

jonatack commented at 10:52 PM on May 20, 2026: member

Concept ACK

Here are the relevant BIP 3 sections on this:

Closed

A BIP that is of historical interest only, and is not being actively worked on,
promoted or in active use, should be marked as Closed. The reason for moving the
proposal to (or from) Closed should be recorded in the Changelog section in the
same commit that updates the status.

Draft ↦ Closed

BIP authors may decide on their own to change their BIP’s status from Draft to Closed.
If a Draft BIP stops making progress, sees accumulated feedback unaddressed, or
otherwise appears stalled for a year, anyone may propose the BIP status be updated to
Closed. The BIP is then updated to Closed unless the authors assert that they intend to
continue work within four weeks of being contacted.

murchandamus commented at 5:39 PM on May 21, 2026: member
I have emailed Michael and Bogdan to provide them notice of this pull request. In absence of a response, this Status update may proceed after 2026-06-18.
- A Changelog to record the Close reason must be added then, before this PR is merged.
Update: The email to the addresses in the BIP resulted in a delivery failure. I then emailed the Bitcoin Dev mailing list instead.
danielabrozzoni commented at 4:30 PM on May 22, 2026: member

Concept ACK!
edilmedeiros commented at 11:41 PM on June 1, 2026: none

Concept ACK

The domain powx.org seems to still be active. I took the liberty to send a message in their contact form:

Dear Sir or Madam,

this is to give notice that there is an active proposal to move the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 52 (BIP 52) proposal authored by Michael Dubrovsky mike+bip@powx.org and Bogdan Penkovsky bogdan+bip@powx.org entitled Durable, Low Energy Bitcoin PoW from the Draft status to Closed. Please find the relevant Pull Request here: #2165.

Regards. Edil Medeiros
murchandamus commented at 12:59 AM on June 2, 2026: member

Thanks @edilmedeiros! Good idea.
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murchandamus commented at 4:11 AM on June 19, 2026: member

I updated this PR to add the Changelog.

bip52: Update to Closed

This proposal appears abandoned, as it has not had any updates in over
four years, and cursory search did not produce any public discussions of
it since it was published either. Attempts to contact the authors did
not receive a response within four weeks.

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danielabrozzoni commented at 1:22 PM on June 19, 2026: member

Looks good to me! ACK 4894bcc4eb6ef852fa9a80ee8f196def6e2ee428

On an unrelated note, I didn't know that README.mediawiki had different background colors based on the status of the BIP! That's pretty cool, but apparently github doesn't display them :(
edilmedeiros commented at 1:48 PM on June 19, 2026: none

ACK 4894bcc4eb6ef852fa9a80ee8f196def6e2ee428

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