Bitcoin News
By Pankaj K
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What Stratum V2 Makes Possible. The technical point that makes all this possible is Stratum V2.
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The Question That Troubles Other Pools. Because DMND is not the only player with ties to acceleration services.
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On August 14, DMND quietly dropped a game-changer in the mining sector. The pool, operating on Stratum V2, has integrated Mempool Accelerator — altering who profits when a…
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Previously, the setup was simple and not very favorable to the little guys. If a user wanted to expedite a transaction stuck in the mempool, they paid an off-chain fee to an…
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Alejandro De La Torre, CEO of DMND, is clear on this: "Accelerated transactions were once part of the pool's collected revenue, now the miner gets both."
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The technical point that makes all this possible is Stratum V2. The protocol allows miners to construct their own blocks — known as the work declaration.
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Mempool Accelerator is the service from mempool.space that allows anyone to pay to prioritize a stuck transaction. The service covers more than 80% of the network's hashrate.
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Orange Surf, head of strategy at mempool.space, says this is a first: miners on Stratum V2 can now receive their share of these additional revenues. No filter.
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This fundamentally changes the logic of mining.
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Because DMND is not the only player with ties to acceleration services. Other pools own or integrate their own transaction acceleration tools.
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See also: Strategy Keeps $4.8 Billion in Cash and Leaves All Options Open on Bitcoin
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No official response from their side yet. No details on how they plan to react — or not.
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More context: $4.8 Billion Cash Reserve Keeps Strategys Bitcoin Options Open
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But the precedent DMND creates is there. And it's visible.
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Bitcoin mining has long operated on a model where pools centralized decisions and revenues, in exchange for reducing risk for individual miners. That's the historical deal.
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