Milestone in Bitcoin mining!
For the first time, two independent miners have managed to process consecutive blocks (944643 and 944644) by choosing the transactions themselves, thanks to the DATUM protocol of the OCEAN pool.
What exactly happened?
Normally, large pools (like Foundry or Antpool) decide which transactions go into a block. Miners only provide the "brute force" of computation. But on April 11, miners ZettaPow and Data Factory took full control:
Autonomy: They built their own block templates.
Reward: Nearly USD 230,000 distributed among the members of the pool.
Independence: As Luke Dashjr (CTO of OCEAN) says, they operated as if they were not in a pool, but with the benefit of sharing risks and profits.
Why is it important for the ecosystem? 💡
Traditional mining is very centralized in a few entities that decide what gets confirmed and what does not. The DATUM protocol (launched at the end of 2024) breaks this mold:
It returns power to the miner: Each individual decides the content of the block.
Censorship resistance: With thousands of people deciding, it is almost impossible to block specific transactions.
Real decentralization: It retains the economic benefits of the pool but eliminates centralized control of the network.
Bitcoin returns to its roots: a system where control is in the hands of many, not just a few.
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