The world's first and oldest Bitcoin mining pool has mined nearly 1.3 million...

The world's first and oldest Bitcoin mining pool has mined nearly 1.3 million...

Over 15,000 users, mainly small individual miners, are part of the still-growing Braiins (Slush Pool) ecosystem. All things have their humble beginnings; in 2010, the first Bitcoin (BTC) mining project was created in Prague, Czechia, and was simply called Bitcoin.cz. Soon afterward, founder Mark "Slush" Palatinus decided to move on to other ventures, such as creating the world's first cryptocurrency hard wallet, Trezor. As a result, Braiins, a company doing embedded Linux development and research, took over the mining pool and renamed it accordingly.Fast forward to now, Braiins (Slush....


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