Bitcoin, Explained — The Technical Side of Bitcoin
Episode 96: Mining Decentralization Update
By Aaron van Wirdum and Sjors Provoost
Aired Feb 5, 2025 · 47m · Last boosted Jul 2, 2025
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Stratum v2, DATUM, Bitaxe, P2Pool and friends. In Bitcoin, Explained 96, Aaron and Sjors discuss some recent innovations in mining, and in particular mining decentralization. Specifically, they discuss the Stratum V2 and DATUM mining protocols to decentralize transaction selection in mining pools, the open source hardware Bitaxe miner, and some recent proposals to make decentralized mining pools like P2Pool more viable. === This episode’s sponsor: CoinKite, maker of the ColdCard. Aaron’s Nostr: npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94l...
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