# Pooled mining protocol **URL:** \ **Category:** Mining\ **Created:** [March 7, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/pooled-mining-protocol/251 "2018-03-07T03:29:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harry.potter](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/harry.potter/32/99_2.png) [@harry.potter](https://forum.grin.mw/u/harry.potter)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/pooled-mining-protocol/251/1 "2018-03-07T03:29:29Z")
Is anyone prepairing to add pool mining protocol like stratum? ---
**Author:** ![monkyyy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.grin.mw/monkyyy/32/1590_2.png) [@monkyyy](https://forum.grin.mw/u/monkyyy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/pooled-mining-protocol/251/2 "2018-03-07T17:26:09Z")
Won’t the usual altcoin pools work? I admit I don’t know the details but there are \>1k altcoins surely they have some plug and play auto-swapping tech to keep it those going [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1777336.0](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1777336.0) Poke them ^ they probably will solve it ---
**Author:** ![OpticFlow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ba9def/32.png) [@OpticFlow](https://forum.grin.mw/u/OpticFlow)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/pooled-mining-protocol/251/3 "2018-03-07T19:31:52Z")
While Stratum is the standard, it would be nice to provide option for an alternative protocol later on. Some fast, light, binary based one… ---
**Author:** ![notguilty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@notguilty](https://forum.grin.mw/u/notguilty)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/pooled-mining-protocol/251/4 "2018-03-28T13:22:00Z")
I am working on adding a minimal stratum server implementation to grin. Still WIP: [https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/779](https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/pull/779)