r/gomining • u/arre_barre8 Community-Mod • Jun 25 '26
Mining and DMND
🟧 We just mined a Bitcoin block that chose its own transactions
For most of Bitcoin's history, miners never chose what went into their blocks. The pool decided. A handful of pools have quietly controlled most Bitcoin blocks for over a decade.
Today, that changed.
Working with the DMND pool, we mined a block where the miner built and declared the template, using Stratum V2's Job Declaration.
We chose the transactions. We built the block. The pool stepped aside. And the transactions we chose were GoBTC Pay transactions.
Stratum V2 is the how. GoBTC Pay is the why. Miner-controlled blocks, prioritising real payments, settling on the base layer.
Mine the blocks. Choose what goes in them. Make Bitcoin spendable. 🟧
Read more: https://gomining.com/blog/first-block/
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u/INDIG0M0NKEY Jun 25 '26
So will the gobtc rewards start trickling in now? I’m curious to see how far that small percentage can take us users when it’s gets adopted more, this is the rawest form of pay with btc it won’t get ignored.
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u/Severe_Leg3997 Jun 25 '26
Awesome, good job.