310 - Stratum protocol extensions
BIP: 310 Layer: Applications Title: Stratum protocol extensions Author: Pavel Moravec Jan Čapek Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0310 Status: Draft Type: Informational Created: 2018-03-10 License: BSD-3-Clause CC0-1.0 ==Abstract== This BIP provides a generic mechanism for specifying stratum protocol extensions. At the same time, one of the important extensions that is specified by this BIP is configuration of bits for "version rolling" in nVersion field of bitcoin block header. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. ==Motivation== The initial motivation for specifying some general support for stratum protocol extensions was a need to allow miners to do so called "version rolling", changing value in the first field of the Bitcoin ...