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Mining Pool

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Properties

Type
  • Class
Resource
  • urn:ngm:class:mining-pool
Domain
  • blockchain
Status
  • stable
Maturity
  • established
Quality
  • 0.72
Is a
Part of
Has part
Requires
Enables
Generated
  • by: process:vault-migrate/1.0 · at: 2026-09-22T12:41:39.024503178Z
Bridges to
Contrasts with
Depends on
Implemented in layer
Legacy term id
  • BC-0064
Links
Page resource
  • urn:visionflow:page:4d3c71efc6dde51c0ca658eec6f20d0f1023a150f90e177543866181947d872d
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Uses

A cooperative arrangement in which multiple miners aggregate their computational resources to increase the probability of successfully mining a block, sharing the resulting block reward proportionally to contributed hash rate. Mining pools reduce variance in miner income but introduce centralisation risks and hash-rate concentration that can threaten network security.

Semantic Classification

Content

Class Declaration

Declaration(Class(:MiningPool))

Subclass Relationships

SubClassOf(:MiningPool :ConsensusProtocol) SubClassOf(:MiningPool :BlockchainEntity)

Essential Properties

SubClassOf(:MiningPool (ObjectSomeValuesFrom :partOf :Blockchain))

SubClassOf(:MiningPool (ObjectSomeValuesFrom :hasProperty :Property))

Data Properties

DataPropertyAssertion(:hasIdentifier :MiningPool “BC-0064”^^xsd:string) DataPropertyAssertion(:hasAuthorityScore :MiningPool “1.0”^^xsd:decimal) DataPropertyAssertion(:isFoundational :MiningPool “true”^^xsd:boolean)

Object Properties

ObjectPropertyAssertion(:enablesFeature :MiningPool :BlockchainFeature) ObjectPropertyAssertion(:relatesTo :MiningPool :RelatedConcept)

Annotations

AnnotationAssertion(rdfs:label :MiningPool “Mining Pool”@en) AnnotationAssertion(rdfs:comment :MiningPool “Collaborative mining group”@en) AnnotationAssertion(dct:description :MiningPool “Foundational blockchain concept with formal ontological definition”@en) AnnotationAssertion(:termID :MiningPool “BC-0064”) AnnotationAssertion(:priority :MiningPool “1”^^xsd:integer) AnnotationAssertion(:category :MiningPool “consensus-fundamentals”@en) )

About Mining Pool

  • Collaborative mining group within blockchain systems, providing essential functionality for distributed ledger technology operations and properties.

Key Characteristics

    1. Definitional Property: Core defining characteristic
    1. Functional Property: Operational behavior
    1. Structural Property: Compositional elements
    1. Security Property: Security guarantees provided
    1. Performance Property: Efficiency considerations

Technical Components

  • Implementation: How concept is realized technically
  • Verification: Methods for validating correctness
  • Interaction: Relationships with other components
  • Constraints: Technical limitations and requirements

Use Cases

  • 1. Core Blockchain Operation
  • Application: Fundamental blockchain functionality
  • Example: Practical implementation in major blockchains
  • Requirements: Technical prerequisites
  • Benefits: Value provided to blockchain systems

Standards & References

  • IEC 23257:2021 - Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
  • IEEE 2418.1 - Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
  • NIST NISTIR - Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies

Current Landscape (2026)

  • Pool concentration remains the defining concern: as of mid-2026 Foundry USA (~24-30% of ~900-1,000 EH/s network hashrate) and AntPool (~15-19%) together produce over half of all blocks, with the top four pools (adding F2Pool and SpiderPool/ViaBTC) covering roughly 75%, giving block-template construction a Nakamoto coefficient of just three.
  • Stratum V2 moved from theory to deployment: Braiins Pool shipped full V2 support including Job Declaration in February 2026, and DEMAND (DMND) launched in November 2025 as the first purpose-built V2-native pool (SRI codebase), with roughly 15-20% of network hashrate now running V2 in some form per the project tracker.
  • Landmark decentralisation milestone: on 25 June 2026 GoMining and DMND mined block 955,318 using the Job Declaration feature, the first known Bitcoin block built from a miner-constructed template in a live Stratum V2 production environment.
  • Industry alignment accelerated on 7-11 May 2026 when seven major pools representing roughly 75% of global hashrate (Foundry USA, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA Pool, Block Inc. and DMND) joined the Stratum V2 Working Group, though most remain in testing rather than live user access.
  • Bitcoin Core v30 (released October 2025) added experimental Stratum V2 support, lowering the barrier for pools and miners to run miner-side template construction and expected to accelerate adoption.
  • Payout-model debate sharpened around transparency: dominant custodial FPPS is being challenged by verifiable non-custodial schemes such as OCEAN’s TIDES (with its DATUM protocol requiring miners to run a full node) and DMND’s provably-fair SLICE, positioned against FPPS’s opaque insurance-style economics.
  • Open frontier as of 2026: converting Working Group membership into production miner-selected templates at the large custodial pools, closing the custody and censorship-resistance gap, and realising Braiins’ measured ~7.4% profitability uplift (via ~60-70% bandwidth savings and encrypted, hijack-resistant transport) at scale.

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