Overview
- DMND mined block 955,318 Thursday after GoMining used Stratum V2’s Job Declaration to construct and declare its own block template to the pool.
- GoMining placed transactions tied to its GoBTC Pay instant-payments protocol into the declared template, demonstrating miners can embed services directly into blocks they help produce.
- Stratum V2’s Job Declaration lets miners propose block templates while pools validate and mine them, keeping pooled revenue smoothing but giving miners control over which transactions are included.
- DMND says Stratum V2 also provides end-to-end encryption and reduces miner-pool bandwidth by roughly 60–70 percent, though these benefits rely on broader software and hardware support.
- The milestone proves the feature works in one live case but widespread change to censorship dynamics and pool business models will depend on sustained adoption across major miners, pools, firmware, and ASIC support.