BTCB2 & Siacoin Pool - 0.25% PPLNS

BTCB2 & Siacoin Pool
Early Public Beta Announcement (BLAKE2b Verified)

We are pleased to announce the early public beta of the BTCB2 & Siacoin Pool, engineered specifically for the Bitcoin Knots BLAKE2b proof-of-work hardfork.

Dashboard: https://pool.sentineldefensetechnologies.co.za
Canonical V1 API: https://origin-pool.sentineldefensetechnologies.co.za/api/v1/pool/btcb2
API & Aggregator Spec: https://pool.sentineldefensetechnologies.co.za/api-docs

Core Architecture & Verified Facts:
• Live Coin: BTCB2 (Bitcoin BLAKE2b PoW Hardfork)
• Siacoin Status: Hardware compatible (Native Siacoin mining on active roadmap / Coming Soon)
• Consensus Node: Bitcoin Knots 29.4.1 (BLAKE2b enabled)
• Launch Fee: 0.25% (25 bps). Governed by a published transparent schedule capped at 1.00% maximum.
• Reward Method: Work-Weighted PPLNS-8D. Exact assigned difficulty is tracked per share—higher-difficulty shares are weighted proportionally, never counted as flat rows.
• No Registration Required: Connect directly using your Bech32 BTCB2 payout address as the worker username.
• Capacity Hard Cap: Bounded at 128 concurrent connections on our dedicated Legion 5 pool host to ensure sub-10ms response latencies and zero thread starvation.
• Regional Stratum: US East (North America — Philadelphia, PA / Verizon FiOS Tier-1 Fiber). Verified live with continuous BLAKE2b share submissions over WAN.

Connection Parameters:

Code:

Stratum URL: stratum+tcp://us-east.stratum.sentineldefensetechnologies.co.za:23339
Worker:      bc1qYourPayoutAddress.WorkerName
Password:    x

Hardware Compatibility & Qualification Status:
• Designed for stock Sia-Stratum V1 ASICs (iBeLink BM-S3, BM-S3+, Innosilicon S11 SiaMaster, Bitmain Antminer A3, Obelisk SC1) and GPU/CPU rigs.
• Note: Physical ASIC qualification is currently active. Public WAN Stratum is empirically verified with live accepted BLAKE2b shares. Miners are welcome to connect test rigs against our vardiff ramp.

Transparent Economic Policy (Zero Operator Capital Backstop):
This pool operates with strict zero-operator-capital discipline. There are no PPS/FPPS debt advances. Miners are paid strictly from actual, matured (100 confirmations), and reconciled blocks found by the pool. Accepted shares establish your proportional window entitlement to pool-found blocks. If the pool finds no blocks, there are no rewards to distribute.

Public feedback, logs, and telemetry are welcome in this thread!