Seven Bitcoin mining pools join Stratum V2 working group to build open protocol

Seven major Bitcoin mining pools have joined the Stratum V2 working group to develop an open, industry-wide protocol for how pool operators communicate with individual miners. The group includes AntPool, Block Inc, F2Pool, Foundry, MARA Foundation, SpiderPool and DMND, with Stratum V2 saying a shared standard could help pools reduce the time needed to mine blocks successfully.