Bitcoin Stratum Pool Server

Traditional Stratum pools let all miners search the same nonce space — chaotic and wasteful. XTRATUM uses Universe Slicer technology: each miner gets a non-overlapping segment of the 4.29 billion nonce universe. No hash wasted. No duplicate work.

It's a swarm pool — when your swarm finds a block, 100% of the reward goes to the pool participants via the PPBE model: 25% finder bonus, 75% split by measured block effort. No pool operator taking the block reward, and a 0% pool fee — the swarm keeps everything it finds.

Point your miner at the XTRATUM Stratum server with these settings:

Host: us-east.xtratumpool.com
Port TCP: 3333  |  Port TLS: 3334
Username: YourWalletAddress.WorkerName
Password: x (anything works)

Works with BitAxe, Canaan Avalon, Antminer, Whatsminer, CGMiner, BFGMiner, and any hardware that supports Stratum v1 Protocol.

Proportional Pay By Effort (PPBE) is XTRATUM's fair reward system. When a block is found:

• 25% goes to the miner who submitted the winning share (finder bonus)
• 75% is split proportionally across all miners based on their share effort during that block
• 0% pool fee — always

Every share you submit earns you a proportional claim on the block reward. The more hashes you contribute, the larger your slice.

Any Bitcoin miner that supports Stratum v1 Protocol works with XTRATUM. This includes:

• BitAxe Gamma, Ultra, Max (ESP32-based open hardware)
• Canaan Avalon Nano 3S and full ASIC units (BIP310 version-rolling supported)
• Antminer S-series and all Bitmain products
• Whatsminer M-series
• CGMiner / BFGMiner software miners
• Any device speaking Stratum Protocol on TCP or TLS

Block hunting with small hardware is a long-odds lottery — but the math improves dramatically with parallel distributed strategy. XTRATUM's 500,000-simulation proof shows the Swarm Hunt approach succeeds 54.73% of the time versus 43.74% for sequential mining.

With small miners like BitAxe running at 1–2 TH/s, a block find at current rewards is life-changing — and under PPBE every contributing miner gets a share. The key insight: 100 small miners find targets 1.78 seconds faster than one large sequential miner covering the same total hashrate. More lottery tickets per minute = better odds.

Stratum Protocol is the industry-standard communication protocol between Bitcoin miners and mining pools. It runs over TCP (typically port 3333) and uses JSON-RPC messages to:

• Send miners a block template (coinbase transaction, merkle branches, target)
• Assign each miner a unique extranonce1 to prevent duplicate work
• Receive share submissions from miners when they find a valid hash
• Notify miners instantly when a new Bitcoin block is found (via mining.notify)

XTRATUM extends standard Stratum v1 with Universe Slicer logic — randomizing the extranonce2 start position across the full 2³² nonce space so every miner hunts a unique territory.

XTRATUM runs on a US-based server in the New York region (us-east.xtratumpool.com), hosted on DigitalOcean infrastructure for low-latency connections across North and South America.

Monitor your miners, hashrate, share stats, and live block hunt in real time at console.xtratumpool.com — the live dashboard updates every few seconds.