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Running Stratum V2

One of the hardest parts of FOSS is understanding users and communicating technical jargon clearly. In mining, that’s harder than usual: there’s a big knowledge, language and cultural gap. On top of that, miners are busy ensuring uptime and chasing cheap energy, not reading protocol jargon. We did our best to close that gap with the new StratumV2 website update. I hope it makes the case that software upgrades can meaningfully improve mining operations, and explains how on a single page. If we missed the mark, throw tomatoes and tell us what to improve! Website is available in 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳🇦🇪🇪🇸.

Trying to catch a bug, can anyone zap this post? If you get an error when doing so please let me know what you get.

New SRI Protocol libraries 1.7 and SV2 Apps 0.2 are out! ⛏️ Release notes https://github.com/stratum-mining/stratum/releases/tag/v1… https://github.com/stratum-mining/sv2-apps/releases/tag/v…

BTCPay Server 2025 Progress Report is out. A look into our key achievements in the past 12 months. https://blog.btcpayserver.org/2025-report/

New BTCPay release enables subscriptions, allows you to make money off your BTCPay by charging users that use it, making it sustainable for local BTC enthusiasts to spread self-custodial bitcoin payments in their neighbourhood! And a dozen other amazing improvements, massive amount of work went into it, hope you like it! 📝 3d26b2da…

New StratumV2 deployment wizard lets you spin up a full mining stack locally, Pool included. Here I’m mining with 3 CPU miners constructing their own templates, connected to the SV2 apps in Docker sending shares to my Pavlenex Mega Inc Pool. Fun little setup if you’re a dev.

This is now live at https://pavlenex.com If any PM wants to use it, the site is open sourced here https://github.com/pavlenex/pavlenex.github.io. I still need to simplify some of the AI slop, but if you have suggestions or ideas for improvements, let me know and I can refine it further 📝 4a9d9df9…

I vibe-coded the geekiest PM portfolio website, wdyt? in 30min 🔥🔥🔥🔥

In the past 2 weeks: Auradine_Inc launched SV2 fw support entire productl ine SRI launched major version with tons of improvements and native Bitcoin Core v30 support DMND POOL opened the first ever SV2 Pool with miner selected templates to the public. Probably nothing.

😱 BREAKING: @DEMAND POOL, THE FIRST EVER STRATUM V2 POOL WITH MINER-SELECTED TEMPLATES IS NOW OPEN FOR PUBLIC! https://onboarding.dmnd.work

Yesterday we launched a full stack @StratumV2 web deployer for developers who want to spin up Pool and miner side apps locally. https://stratumprotocol.org/developers Would love feedback from devs and anyone comfortable with CLI. Anything unclear? What sucks, what can be better?

Today, we released a new version of SV2 Reference Implementation (SRI). Starting today miners no longer need a custom BTC Core fork to build block templates with SV2. The bitcoin_core_sv2 crate is integrated into JDC and Pool, enabling direct communication with Bitcoin Core v30. This improves the UX and keeps SRI implementation-agnostic going forward. With this release, we’re rolling out Docker support for SV2 Apps, making cross-platform deployments easier and shipping binaries for all major platforms. This is the first step toward a smoother UX. In the next release, we plan to ship UI for our miner-side apps: JDC and tProxy. We’ve split the project into two repositories: /stratum containing low-level protocol crates and /Sv2-Apps for end-user applications. This makes the ecosystem easier to understand, contribute, and build on. Want to test all the new improvements yourself? Use our Web Deployment Wizard to spin up the full SV2 stack (Including your own pool) and share your feedback with the community. https://stratumprotocol.org/get-started (for miners) https://stratumprotocol.org/developers (for devs and full stack deployments)

📢 Auradine just launched Bitcoin miners with native Stratum V2 firmware support, built directly into their FluxOS™🔥

😳 📝 7b1d014d…

Spiral launches the Bitcoin Merchant Community 🚀 The go-to hub for businesses wanting to accept bitcoin. Defeat 3% credit card fees! Share it with your fav food truck! 📝 1274479c…

With Stratum v2 support out of the box! 📝 c7af5235…

I urge FOSS maintainers and entities giving grants to do better due diligence when onboarding brand new devs and giving grants. People are faking GitHub activity, portfolios, and entire projects. It's still easy to spot if you take the time instead of just throwing money. FOSS is easier target than a company, because in a desperation to have contributors, barriers of entry are lower, but it has long-term consequences to the project, so be aware!

Why Stratum V2?

"In a world where verifying data gets harder every day, FOSS remains an essential tool for truth and freedom." New Stratum V2 SRI 1.4.0 release is out 🎉 Change log is too massive to fit into an image, check it out https://github.com/stratum-mining/stratum/releases/tag/v1…