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Peer Feature Negotiation

A desk note on BIP 434 (Peer Feature Negotiation). The file's status is Complete. The note records the text. It does not measure who runs it.

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Authors: Anthony Towns
Date: 2026
Publisher: Anthony Towns
Version: Source cited by the 2026 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-1695
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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A desk note on BIP 434 (Peer Feature Negotiation). The file's status is Complete. The note records the text. It does not measure who runs it.

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Official source — BIP 434
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Author–date

Towns, A. (2026). Peer Feature Negotiation. Anthony Towns. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0434.md

BibTeX

@techreport{bip4342026,
  title = {Peer Feature Negotiation},
  author = {Anthony Towns},
  year = {2026},
  institution = {Anthony Towns},
  url = {https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0434.md},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/bip-434}
}

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TY  - RPRT
TI  - Peer Feature Negotiation
AU  - Anthony Towns
PY  - 2026
PB  - Anthony Towns
UR  - https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0434.md
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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