Pools & payouts
Mining news and original analysis with dated primary sources.
KuCoin pauses Monero deposits and withdrawals for wallet maintenance
KuCoin scheduled a temporary XMR deposit-and-withdrawal closure from 01:00 UTC on September 24 and says service will resume after maintenance, without publishing a completion time.
ViaBTC ends CoinEx auto-withdrawals: what miners should check
ViaBTC says its Withdrawal to CoinEx feature ends on September 22, 2026. Pool mining continues; affected users should set a new payout address and verify the route.
DxPool sets September 24 shutdown for its Monero mining pool
DxPool's official September 10 notice says XMR pool mining stops September 24 UTC. Users are told to switch pools and withdraw balances; the withdrawal cutoff remains unannounced.
Stratum V2 releases harden shares, jobs and translator sessions
The coordinated stratum v1.12.0 and sv2-apps v0.8.0 releases harden share validation, bounded job storage and Sv1-to-Sv2 translation. Breaking crate changes require a staged, coordinated upgrade.
Bitcoin Core adds bestblockhash to getmininginfo to avoid template races
Merged change lets mining software obtain the tip hash and next-target data from one consistent RPC snapshot.
Why pool vardiff can strand a slowing Bitcoin miner
Bitcoin Optech summarizes a controller failure mode: if difficulty changes only when a share arrives, a slowed miner may wait too long for the next share.
Zcash coinholders back halvings and proposed 25-second blocks
What the NU7 poll means for miners: governance support, activation evidence and reward accounting are separate questions.
ViaBTC partners with Mempool on transaction acceleration
What transaction acceleration changes for users and what miners should measure.
GridPool releases StartOS and Umbrel beta packages for native Stratum V2
September 15 packages simplify deploying GridPool. These are early server-side betas, not universal ASIC firmware; native SV2 compatibility remains essential.
PDoS research models a profitable liveness attack on PoW pools
A new preprint combines block-header deterrence with revenue extraction from a victim pool. It is a research result, not evidence of a live attack.
Why short pool comparisons mislead
Payout variance can distort a short trial. Compare reward methods, fees and longer measurement periods before drawing conclusions.
Z15 Pro: a connection issue traced to Stratum
The technical case examines an extranonce mismatch during pool connection, showing why protocol settings belong in ASIC troubleshooting.