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DMND Mines First Known Stratum V2 Bitcoin Block for GoMining

The live deployment shows miners can declare their own block templates to include services like GoBTC Pay and may shift who picks transactions on the network.

Overview

  • DMND’s pool produced block number 955,318 for GoMining using Stratum V2’s Job Declaration, with GoMining supplying the declared block template.
  • Job Declaration lets a miner build and submit its own block template while the pool validates the work, giving the miner control over which transactions are included.
  • GoMining used the declared template to include transactions from its GoBTC Pay instant payments protocol, demonstrating how miner-run products can be embedded in blocks.
  • The approach keeps pooled-mining economics such as revenue smoothing while moving transaction-selection power from pools to individual miners, which could reduce centralized influence and censorship risk.
  • This result is a production proof of concept for Stratum V2 on DMND but wider adoption will require miners, pools, and infrastructure providers to update software and workflows at scale.