Mining pools smooth Bitcoin payouts, but 2026 profitability depends on costs, efficiency, and market conditions.

DMND (“Demand Pool”) aims to revolutionize Bitcoin mining with the launch of the first-ever Stratum V2 mining pool, empowering miners with greater control, security, and transparency. By allowing ...

A lone miner solved Bitcoin block #957,382 with a $150 Bitaxe Gamma at ~1 TH/s, earning 3.1382 BTC (~$200,000) — lottery-tier ...

DMND mining pool and GoMining mined the first known Bitcoin block using Stratum V2's Job Declaration feature, allowing a miner—not the pool—to select transactions and build its own block template, a ...

Parasite Pool, a home-miner-focused bitcoin mining pool using a novel hybrid payout model, has mined its second block, #945,601, about 48 days after its first. The pool pays 1 bitcoin directly to the ...

The Stratum V2 working group aims to improve mining-pool communication and give individual miners more control over block templates. Seven major Bitcoin mining pools and companies have joined the ...