I attended BTC Prague 2024 as a contributor to Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI)
I helped the SRI community deliver a hands-on workshop during HRF dev/hack/day. We had very positive engagement from Hashlabs Mining.
We also spoke with some relevant industry players, including:
- Demand, which is trailblazing SV2 adoption with the Job Declaration protocol. I'm very bullish on how they are decentralizing mining by allowing their hashers to select transactions.
- Braiins, which gave us a sample of their new BMM100 (SV2 enabled Home Miner). It will allow us to test SV2 interoperability between SRI and BOS firmware.
- Marathon, which gave us a sample of their new UCB2100 (Antminer Control Board).
- Ocean, whose community of hashers could benefit from an off-the-shelf FOSS SV1 Proxy solution and reduce the incidence of empty blocks being mined on their pool.
My key takeaways with regards to SV2 adoption:
- Demand is writing some awesome libs based on SRI. I'm excited to record some live coding screencasts with @Fi3 and share that knowledge with the community.
- The Bitcoin mining industry has fragmented SV1 standards
- players are eager for SV2 enabled firmware but also working new standards for encryption and binary encoding on SV1
- FOSS SV2 firmware has great potential to boost adoption (e.g.: github.com/plebhash/cgminer-sv2 🙏)
- Industry players will adopt SV2 when they are ready, and this will be a gradual transition.
- Bitcoin is at its healthiest when hashpower flows easily across different pools
- INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY
⛏️ plebs be hashin ⚡