DATUM Was Built for the Edge
Remote mining is all about constraints. DATUM was built for exactly that reality.
If you are running miners at a stranded gas site, you already know the game. Power might be cheap, but connectivity is not. Bandwidth is limited. Service can be inconsistent. Every extra moving part is another thing that can fail when your site is hours away from the nearest town.
What DATUM Actually Does
DATUM is an open-source mining protocol built to move control and heavy lifting closer to the miner. Instead of relying on a pool server to constantly build work and push it across the internet to every machine, DATUM lets the miner generate work locally using a DATUM gateway and a Bitcoin node on site. The pool still coordinates payout splits, but the actual mining operation becomes far more local and far more efficient.
That shift matters a lot more on a flared gas site than it does in a data center with premium fiber.
The Bandwidth Case
With DATUM, you keep the high-volume mining traffic on your local network. Your miners talk locally to your DATUM gateway. Your DATUM gateway works with your node. Instead of blasting huge amounts of pool traffic back and forth across the public internet all day, you maintain a much leaner upstream connection.
"A 1 EH/s operation on legacy Stratum might use roughly 200 GB of data per day. With DATUM, that can drop to around 8 GB per day — a 95% reduction in bandwidth."
The practical result is a setup that is better suited for remote deployments where bandwidth is expensive, unstable, or both. It can run effectively over Starlink or LTE with no meaningful loss in performance, while a Stratum-based setup is more exposed to packet loss and stale shares.
Stale Shares and Real Money
If your stale rate moves from even 0.25% before to nearly 0% with DATUM, that may sound small. But across a large site, that can mean claiming real money otherwise left on the table month after month. And because DATUM uses modern encrypted communications and a different traffic profile than legacy Stratum, it also gives miners a better level of privacy from the ISP than plain-text pool traffic does today.
DATUM Gives Miners Control Back
In the old model, miners mostly sell hashpower and the pool decides what goes in the block. With DATUM, miners can construct their own block templates using their own node, while still participating in pooled mining and receiving coordinated payouts through OCEAN.
In plain English: you are not just hosting machines and forwarding work from somebody else's server. You are doing real mining again. The people who invest in sites, source gas, move containers, fight weather, fix generators, and keep machines alive in hard places should not be reduced to anonymous hash pointed at a pool. DATUM restores a measure of independence and gives miners the ability to put their own name on the work.
- 95% less bandwidth vs legacy Stratum
- Built for Starlink and LTE deployments
- Miners build their own block templates
- Encrypted traffic — better ISP privacy
- 50% OCEAN pool fee discount for DATUM miners
- 2025 data: OCEAN DATUM miners earned 3.6% more than FPPS
The OCEAN Incentive
OCEAN also offers a 50% discount on pool fees for miners using DATUM, which makes the operational case even stronger. Coupled with the proven yield — 2025 data showed OCEAN miners made 3.6% more than FPPS (or 6.27 BTC per EH) in the calendar year — the advantage is clear and tangible.
DATUM is not just a better architecture for remote sites. It is also one you can deploy today through OCEAN.
To learn more about DATUM visit ocean.xyz/datum.