DATUM was born out of a need to restore Bitcoin mining to its decentralized roots—a time when miners truly embodied the role of building the blockchain by constructing block templates and submitting them to the network. Over the years, mining has drifted toward centralization, with large pools dominating the process and reducing miners to mere sellers of hash power. DATUM seeks to bring back the core principle of Bitcoin: decentralization, giving miners direct control over the block construction process once again.

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