BIP 21 had broad consensus among the major implementations: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021 BIP 19 is a document to propose adding a new payment type to the scripting system's template list. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0019 I haven't fully evaluated it completely but it seems solid. My only thoughts is that it uses a bunch of arithmetic operators which can behave in strange ways.