Covenants Support Wiki

  • User “1440000bytes” aka “/dev/fd0” aka “Floppy Disk Guy” has created a page on the Bitcoin Wiki listing a few dozen bitcoin devs and their opinions about a potential forthcoming soft fork to add covenants to bitcoin
  • Any bitcoin dev can edit the page and add their opinions to it
  • This is simliar to the support page for Segwit and was most likely inspired by it
  • The page has (at the moment) 42 developers’ opinions listed, 15 of which have links to a rationale
    • A rationale is important so that viewers can understand why devs are for or against a given proposal
    • Opinions without rationales are thus given less weight

Questions

  • What are covenants?
  • Why is it important to poll devs to see what they support?
  • Which proposals do you support?