Slush’s Pool Beta Is More Than Just a Facelift

Slush’s Pool Beta Is More Than Just a Facelift

Slush’s Pool was introduced in late 2010 and was the brainchild of Marek Palatinus who saw a need for pooled mining resources to be able to keep more people mining Bitcoin. He developed the Stratum style of mining to help miners receive payouts in a landscape of escalating mining power. The development of Slush’s Pool brought with it a new era of Bitcoin mining and changed forever the way we mine Bitcoin and many other Cryptocurrencies. Marek’s words about how he came up with pooled mining are quite fitting. Now on November 17th Satoshi Labs announced the new Beta for Slush’s Pool. Slush’s....


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