I attended BTC Prague 2024 as a contributor to Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI)

I helped the SRI community deliver a hands-on workshop during HRF dev/hack/day. We had very positive engagement from Hashlabs Mining.

We also spoke with some relevant industry players, including:

- Demand, which is trailblazing SV2 adoption with the Job Declaration protocol. I'm very bullish on how they are decentralizing mining by allowing their hashers to select transactions.

- Braiins, which gave us a sample of their new BMM100 (SV2 enabled Home Miner). It will allow us to test SV2 interoperability between SRI and BOS firmware.

- Marathon, which gave us a sample of their new UCB2100 (Antminer Control Board).

- Ocean, whose community of hashers could benefit from an off-the-shelf FOSS SV1 Proxy solution and reduce the incidence of empty blocks being mined on their pool.

My key takeaways with regards to SV2 adoption:

- Demand is writing some awesome libs based on SRI. I'm excited to record some live coding screencasts with @Fi3 and share that knowledge with the community.

- The Bitcoin mining industry has fragmented SV1 standards

- players are eager for SV2 enabled firmware but also working new standards for encryption and binary encoding on SV1

- FOSS SV2 firmware has great potential to boost adoption (e.g.: github.com/plebhash/cgminer-sv2 🙏)

- Industry players will adopt SV2 when they are ready, and this will be a gradual transition.

- Bitcoin is at its healthiest when hashpower flows easily across different pools

- INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY

⛏️ plebs be hashin ⚡