DATUM: The Mining Upgrade that Pays for Itself | Bitcoin 2026
"You're not a miner. You're a hasher." That's Jason Hughes of OCEAN cutting straight to the point at Bitcoin 2026: if you're sending hash rate to a centralized pool, the pool controls the block template — not you. His project, DATUM, is the open-source MIT-licensed gateway that flips that dynamic. The talk covers stale share elimination, bandwidth bottleneck math, non-custodial payouts, and a wild stress test that ran multiple exahash against a Raspberry Pi 3.Trade Bitcoin's next move on Duelbits Predict — get 100% cashback on your first bet, up to $100. Bitcoin Magazine exclusive. 👉 bitcoinmagazine.com/duelbits-predict
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🔶 Jason Hughes - OCEAN
Chapters:
00:51 — The Hidden Cost of Centralized Mining: 1.5 BTC Left on the Table
01:55 — Stale Shares Explained: Why Latency Kills Mining Revenue
02:42 — The Bandwidth Spike Problem & Why Starlink Miners Lose More
03:32 — What DATUM Gateway Actually Is
04:39 — On-Site Work Generation: Sub-Millisecond LAN Latency
05:20 — Non-Custodial Coinbase Payouts: Cutting Out the Middleman
06:17 — How DATUM Eliminates Both Bottlenecks
07:31 — Scaling the Math: Best-Case and Worst-Case Mining Losses
07:56 — Block Template Control: Signaling, Transactions & Sovereignty
09:36 — Open Source, MIT Licensed & Compatible With Any GBT Node
10:42 — Decentralizing Bitcoin Mining
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