OCEAN
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In plain words
OCEAN is a bitcoin mining pool paying with TIDES. Non-custodial: rewards go straight to miners from the coinbase transaction.
Share of blocks found in the last 7 days: 2.8% (mempool.space (1 week), 22 Oct, 20:05 London) · Official site: ocean.xyz
Key facts
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Payout scheme | TIDES | ocean.xyz · 2026-10-20 |
| Fee | 2% (1% if you build your own block templates with DATUM) | ocean.xyz · 2026-10-20 |
| Minimum payout | 0.01048576 BTC on-chain, paid from the coinbase; Lightning below that | ocean.xyz · 2026-10-20 |
| Official site | ocean.xyz | ocean.xyz |
Terms and notes
Non-custodial: rewards go straight to miners from the coinbase transaction. DATUM lets miners pick transactions themselves.
Servers: Not published per region
Uses DATUM instead of SV2
Not confirmed on an official page as of 2026-10-20: server regions, Stratum V2 support.
See also
- Mining poolA mining pool combines the hashrate of many miners so they get small, regular payouts instead of waiting years for a whole block.
- Pool payout schemes (PPS, PPLNS, FPPS, TIDES)A payout scheme is how a mining pool shares block rewards among its miners. The main question is who carries the luck: the pool (steady pay, higher fee) or the miners (variable pay, lower fee).
- Stratum V2Stratum V2 is the newer protocol between miners and pools. It encrypts the connection, uses compact binary messages and, optionally, lets the miner rather than the pool choose which transactions go into a block.
- HashrateHashrate is how many guesses per second all Bitcoin miners make together. More hashrate means more energy protecting the network.