BIP 110 Failed… So They Forked Bitcoin. Now Stratum Is Next? Understanding XBT
BIP 110 Failed… So They Forked Bitcoin. Now Stratum Is Next? Understanding XBT
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📌 VIDEO DESCRIPTION
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If you mine XBT (the Bitcoin Knots BLAKE2b chain) through a normal Stratum pool, this timeline matters. We cover how BIP 110 (the RDTS anti-spam soft fork) failed, the pivot to a BLAKE2b hard fork, the first backward-incompatible change in 13 years, and the 45-day coinbase lock live from block 973,440 to 979,920.
Then the three-phase plan in Luke Dashjr’s pull request #419 ("part 1 of 3"), what he has said about SV1 / Stratum pools, why your own node with DATUM is the setup the plan does not touch, and why a pool-hosted gateway is NOT the same as running DATUM yourself. Phases 2 and 3 are a stated plan, not live code yet.
Not financial advice. Rules, price, difficulty and hashrate change fast, so read the sources and test your own hardware.
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📚 SOURCES
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BIP 110 spec: https://bips.dev/110/
BIP 110 marked Closed: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/b_aV3JUtUqg/m/HwFbYFJwCAAJ
BIP-110 closed article: https://rabidmining.com/bip110-closed-new-bitcoin-pow-fork/
PR #359 BLAKE2b hard fork: https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/359
PR #410 extended maturity: https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/410
PR #419 Long coinbase maturity (part 1 of 3): https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/419
Knots 29.4.2 release notes: https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/releases/tag/v29.4.2.knots20260508
Luke’s SV1/Stratum quotes are from his replies and posts. The written plan is in PR #419.
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🔎 TOPICS COVERED
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XBT mining
Bitcoin Knots BLAKE2b hard fork
BIP 110 / RDTS explained
45-day coinbase maturity lock
Stratum vs DATUM mining
Luke Dashjr three-phase plan
Block 973,440 to 979,920
Run your own XBT node
Rabid Pool XBT DATUM setup
Are Stratum miners getting paid?
#XBT #BitcoinKnots #BLAKE2b #DATUM #CryptoMining
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⏱️ CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro: the plan that could end XBT Stratum payouts
1:39 Rewind: how this started (BIP 110 & RDTS)
2:31 BIP 110 fails with 2.53% support
3:37 The pivot: hard fork to BLAKE2b
4:21 The rented hashrate risk (PR #359)
5:28 Mainnet launch: block 961,640
6:14 First backward-incompatible change in 13 years
6:53 The 45-day coinbase lock (PRs #410 / #419)
8:04 What is locked: blocks 973,440 to 979,920
9:09 The three-phase plan ("part one of three")
11:04 What Luke said about SV1 / Stratum pools
12:57 What protects you: DATUM and your own node
14:11 Why a pool-hosted gateway is NOT DATUM
15:39 What to do now: run your own node
16:04 Stratum shutdown countdown and the 1% fee
16:48 Summary and wrap-up
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