At around that time, Martin Becze had quietly been building a JavaScript client for Ethereum while living in a camper in his parents’ backyard in Indiana, until he’d been hired by the Ethereum Foundation as a contractor. He’d decided there needed to be a more formal process for proposing changes to Ethereum. So he copied Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs) and programming language Python’s Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) and created Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), a document designed for anyone to propose changes for Ethereum, which had to include a technical specification and the reason
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