Episode 96: Mining Decentralization Update
From Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin by Van Wirdum Sjorsnado
February 5, 2025 · 47 min · Episode 96
About this episode
In this episode, Aaron and Sjors discuss recent innovations in mining decentralization, including Stratum V2 and DATUM protocols.
Stratum v2, DATUM, Bitaxe, P2Pool and friends. In Bitcoin, Explained 96, Aaron and Sjors discuss some recent innovations in mining, and in particular mining decentralization. Specifically, they discuss the Stratum V2 and DATUM mining protocols to decentralize transaction selection in mining pools, the open source hardware Bitaxe miner, and some recent proposals to make decentralized mining pools like P2Pool more viable. === This episode’s sponsor: CoinKite, maker of the ColdCard. Aaron’s Nostr: npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 Sjors’ Nostr: nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnnwpex7an0daehgtnwdshsqgyxsh477ejn8rwkjv0zen0ncxwe7rj6zpnujx8j9ecgrsj43786lqyul0f2
People in this episode
Host: Sjors
Guest: Aaron
Topics covered
- mining decentralization
- Stratum V2
- DATUM
- Bitaxe
- P2Pool
- mining protocols
- open source hardware
Keywords
- mining
- decentralization
- Bitcoin
- Stratum V2
- DATUM
- P2Pool
- Bitaxe
- open source
Sponsors
CoinKite
Mentioned in this episode
Products: ColdCard, Stratum V2, DATUM, Bitaxe, P2Pool
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