Bitcoin mining pools with 75% of BTC hashrate join open standard for block construction

A significant development in the Bitcoin mining industry has emerged as major mining pools, including Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, and MARA Pool, have joined the Stratum V2 working group. This collaboration, representing approximately 75% of the global Bitcoin hashrate, aims to implement an open standard that empowers individual miners by returning block construction decisions to them, potentially enhancing decentralization and efficiency in the mining process.