Bitcoin Mining Vardiff Flaw Wastes Power After Curtailment
The failure mode targets pool accounting rather than Bitcoin's network difficulty, making controller testing critical as miners increasingly curtail power during grid stress.
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The failure mode targets pool accounting rather than Bitcoin's network difficulty, making controller testing critical as miners increasingly curtail power during grid stress.
The block is the proof-of-concept, but the structural shift is miner-built templates displacing pool-built ones, with payments firm GoBTC Pay as the first named commercial beneficiary.
Stratum V1 job templates are readable in cleartext on many GEO downlinks, turning every mining pool that pipes work over satellite into a passive target.
The dollar-level stakes are zero — it's a protocol standard — but seven pools agreeing to the same block-construction standard is the biggest decentralization shift in bitcoin mining since Stratum V1…