One giant leap for bitcoin mining
Stratum V2 is the next generation protocol for pooled mining. It increases security, makes data transfers more efficient, and reduces mining infrastructure requirements. It also introduces three new sub-protocols that let miners select transaction sets and improve decentralization.
Flexible configurations
Miners can utilize Stratum V2 without updating to SV2 firmware. Connect your SV1 firmware devices through Translation Proxy which facilitates the conversion of SV1 messages to SV2 for communication with an SV2 pool. Miners handle transaction selection locally via their own Template Provider, and declare them to a pool. If a pool rejects the proposed transactions, miners automatically switch to an alternative pool. Should all configured pools decline the proposal, miners fallback to solo mining.
Layers of Upgrades
Security
V2 introduces by-default encryption and NOISE protocol authentication, hardening the protocol against man-in-the-middle attacks.
Performance
The new Stratum optimizes data transfer size and frequency between miners, proxies, and pool operators, creating higher submission rates while reducing hash rate variance (miner payouts).
Flexibility
V2 improves logic and framework by letting miners and mining pools running V1 make incremental and modular improvements. These implementations can communicate via pool and client-side proxy translations with minimal tradeoffs.
Censorship Resistance
New features further decentralize bitcoin by integrating distributed transaction selections into the protocol, letting end-miners build and select transaction sets and block templates.
Standardization
By failing to precisely define Stratum V1’s specifications, we inadvertently created multiple implementations with varying semi-compatible dialects. Stratum V2 fixes this by defining its protocol parameters to ensure cross-compatibility between and pools and end-mining devices.
Stratum V2 specification authors
Stratum V2 specs authors are Pavel Moravec and Jan Čapek, in collaboration with Matt Corallo and other industry experts.
Support for Stratum V2
Let’s make Stratum V2 the new standard. Show material support or indicate your approval of the protocol direction.
