Seven major Bitcoin mining pools and companies have joined the Stratum V2 working group to help develop an open standard for communication between mining pool operators and individual miners. AntPool, ...

The biggest decentralization move bitcoin mining has seen in years just happened quietly, with seven of the largest pools agreeing to back the same open standard. Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, ...

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The Stratum V2 working group aims to improve mining-pool communication and give individual miners more control over block templates. Seven major Bitcoin mining pools and companies have joined the ...