Gomining Mines First Live Stratum V2 Bitcoin Block, Shifting Control to Miners
Digital mining firm Gomining said it mined the first live Bitcoin block using the Stratum V2 protocol via the DMND mining pool. Key TakeawaysGomining mined the first live Bitcoin block via DMND pool, letting miners pick transactions.Gomining bypassed centralized pool operators for over a decade of tradition by constructing its own template.Advocates expect this production milestone to drive global adoption of Stratum V2 across mining networks. A Milestone for Miner Autonomy Digital mining firm Gomining revealed Thursday, June 25, that it successfully mined the first known live Bitcoin block utilizing the Stratum V2 protocol. The block was produced in a live production environment using the DMND bitcoin mining pool. The achievement demonstrates a functional blueprint for miner-controlled block creation, a structural shift away from the centralized transaction selection models that have long dominated the cryptocurrency mining sector. For more than a decade, mining pools have held primary control over which transactions are included in Bitcoin blocks. Gomining bypassed this dynamic by leveraging Stratum V2s job declaration functionality via the DMND pool, according to a media statement. This allowed the company to locally construct and declare its own block template rather than relying on a pool operator to select transactions. “This block demonstrates that miners can