Proof of Work - An interview with – Slush
summary
Describes building Slush Pool from a January–February 2011 experiment into a production service that briefly controls 40% of the network by solo maintenance and later professionalization, and adopting low-difficulty shares and a fee model to make pooled mining viable. Chronicles moving from software to a physical wallet called treasurer, battling six-month mold delays, manufacturing and shipping failures, and lengthy customer support learning. Now runs a ~60-person company and ships hardware after months of production fixes.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Proof of Work introduction
- 0:41First computer encounter
- 3:35Gaming to hardware tinkering
- 5:45Banking and open source
- 8:38Discovering Bitcoin potential
- 11:57User to miner transition
- 14:08Slush Pool founding
- 17:27Managing Slush Pool alone
- 20:22Professionalizing with a team
- 22:32SatoshiLabs and Trezor launch
- 25:01Lessons from dedication
- 27:13Trezor design goals
- 27:56Current work and plans
