Major Bitcoin Mining Pools Adopt Stratum V2 Standard for Decentralization
- Seven major mining pools, including Foundry and AntPool, have joined the Stratum V2 working group.
- Stratum V2 allows individual miners to create their own block templates, shifting transaction selection from pool operators.
- The participating pools control approximately 75% of Bitcoin global hashrate.
- Foundry controls 34.2%, AntPool 14.2%, F2Pool 11.3%, and SpiderPool 10.5%.
- The network hashrate currently stands at 998 exahash per second.
- Bitcoin mining difficulty is set to increase from 132.47T to 135.64T on May 15.
The adoption of Stratum V2 marks a significant shift in how mining pools operate, addressing concerns over centralization in the Bitcoin network by empowering individual miners with more control over transaction selection.
With nearly three-quarters of the hashrate now supporting this new standard, it may influence future practices in Bitcoin mining significantly.(Source)
