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@Brigson Brigson commented Mar 21, 2026

User Age Verification for Wallet Software

User Age Verification for Wallet Software
@Brigson Brigson changed the title Create bip-1043.mediawiki User Age Verification for Wallet Software bip-1043 Mar 21, 2026
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Need to specify side loading mechanism for binaries in order to connect with ID check services.
Need to be another BIP tho.

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I don't see how adding a single field to already non standardized wallet storage formats is worthy of a BIP.

## Motivation
A growing number of jurisdictions require software to implement age
verification mechanisms. A standardized field would allow ecosystem-wide
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"A standardized field would allow ecosystem-wide compliance" - what? This is nonsensical. Wallets store their data in non-standardized formats.


## Specification
Wallet implementations MAY include a `birthDate` field formatted as
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"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.

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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.

@murchandamus murchandamus changed the title User Age Verification for Wallet Software bip-1043 User Age Verification for Wallet Software Mar 21, 2026
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