A Golang library for the Bitcoin Stratum Protocol

Stratum is how Bitcoin miners connect with mining pools.

See here for a description of Stratum, here for a more-detailed overview, here for another overview, and here for Stratum extensions.
Also see this BitcoinTalk thread by CK.
Extensions are necessary to support ASIC Boost.

forked from https://github.com/kbnchk/go-Stratum

Importing

use master for now, eventually ill do a 1.0.0 release

go get git.0xf0xx0.eth.limo/0xf0xx0/stratum@master

TODO

• Implement everything to get up to stratum 1.1 support
• make it more intuitive to handle messages, try to avoid intermediate Messages
• work out all the bugs
• streaming support?

Supported BIPs

• 310

Supported Methods

• client.reconnect
• client.show_message
• mining.authorize
• mining.configure
• mining.extranonce.subscribe
• mining.notify
• mining.ping
• mining.set_difficulty
• mining.set_version_mask
• mining.submit
• mining.subscribe
• mining.suggest_difficulty

Unsupported methods

• client.get_version
• mining.get_transactions
• mining.set_extranonce
• mining.suggest_target

Usage

Decoding a stratum request

msg := []byte(`{"id": 1, "method": "mining.subscribe", "params": ["cpuminer-opt-24.5-x64L"]}`)
request := &stratum.Request{}
request.Unmarshal(msg)
if request.GetMethod() == stratum.MethodMiningSubscribe {
	params := &stratum.MiningSubscribeParams{}
	params.Read(request)
	fmt.Printf("%+v\n", params) // &{UserAgent:cpuminer-opt-24.5-x64L ExtraNonce1:<nil>}
}

Encoding a stratum request

extranonce1 := stratum.ID(420)
params := stratum.MiningSubscribeParams{
	UserAgent:   "bitaxe/FTXGOXX",
	ExtraNonce1: &extranonce1,
}
fmt.Printf("%+v", stratum.SubscribeRequest(1, params)) /// &{MessageID:1 Method:mining.subscribe Params:[bitaxe/FTXGOXX 000001a4]}

Method types

Some methods are client-to-server, others are server-to-client. Some methods require a response, others do not.

Client-to-server

method	type
mining.authorize	request / response
mining.configure	request / response
mining.extranonce.subscribe	request / response
mining.get_transactions	request / response
mining.ping	request / response
mining.submit	request / response
mining.subscribe	request / response
mining.suggest_difficulty	notification
mining.suggest_target	notification

Server-to-client

method	type
client.get_version	request / response
client.reconnect	notification
client.show_message	notification
mining.notify	notification
mining.ping	request / response
mining.set_difficulty	notification
mining.set_extranonce	notification
mining.set_version_mask	notification

TODO: replace all this with a link to bip-41, mayb

Message Formats

Stratum uses json. There are three message types: notification, request, and response.

Notification

Notification is for methods that don't require a response.

{
  method: string,        // one of the methods above
  params: [json...]      // array of json values
}

Request

Request is for methods that require a response.

{
  "id": uint or string, // a unique id, typically a hex-encoded number
  "method": string,        // one of the methods above
  "params": [json...]      // array of json values
}

Response

Response is the response to requests.

{
  "id": integer or string,   // a unique id, must be the same as on the request
  "result": json,            // typically a boolean response
  "error": null or [
    uint,                    // error code
    string                   // error message
  ]
}

Methods

mining.authorize

The first message that is sent in classic Stratum. For extended Stratum, mining.configure comes first and then mining.authorize.

mining.subscribe

Sent by the client after mining.authorize.

mining.set_difficulty

Sent by the server after responding to mining.subscribe and every time the difficulty changes.

mining.notify

Sent by the server whenever the block is updated. This happens periodically as the block is being built and when a new block is discovered.

mining.configure

The first message that is sent in extended Stratum. Necessary for ASICBoost. The client sends this to tell the server what extensions it supports.

mining.set_version_mask

Sent by the server to notify of a change in version mask. Requires the version-rolling extension.

mining.submit

Sent by the client when a new share is mined. Modified by version-rolling.

mining.ping

Sent by either the server or client at any time. Expects a boolean response.