World’s First Mining Pool ‘Slushpool’ Targets Chinese Market
CoinTelegraph spoke with the creator of the first bitcoin mining pool of the world, Slushpool, which has released its Chinese version targeting the untapped potential of the growing Asian market. Slushpool belongs to SatoshiLabs based in Prague, Czech Republic. As one of the earliest Bitcoin companies, SatoshiLabs also operates bitcoin hardware wallets named Trezor and Coinmap used to check the merchants who accept bitcoin worldwide. Marek Palatinus, who is also known as “slush” to many people, is the architect of the Slushpool, which launched in 2010, to become the first bitcoin mining....
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