Stratum v1 Mining Protocol

Stratum v1 is the standard protocol for communication between mining pools and mining hardware (ASICs). It uses JSON-RPC 2.0 over TCP with newline-delimited messages.

When to Use

• Implementing a BSV mining pool server
• Building mining proxy software
• Creating ASIC firmware/software
• Debugging miner-pool communication
• Understanding pool share validation

Protocol Overview

Transport Layer

• Plain TCP socket connection
• JSON-RPC messages terminated by newline (\n)
• Persistent connection (not HTTP request/response)
• Optional TLS encryption on separate port