Slush Pool

But if you are going to get them on a KYC exchange, I'd dearly recommend Invity because I think it's the best way to do that in Europe right now.

So I guess Slush Pool was a thing back then as well, which later turned into Brains, right?

yeah but it was a little bit outside of the satoshi lab so uh it was rebranded and uh and slash uh slash uh exited from that company but i don't have the history exactly but yeah brains is uh originally slash pool and one of the greatest uh czech inventions in bitcoin i think really i love the story because uh if you take the czech history uh we were communist country right and um one of the things that communists did, they basically took the people's land and farms and they formed like cooperatives, right? So now you had to like give your land and cooperate on taking care of the land with other landlords.

And Slash was like, It wasn't community anymore, but Bitcoin mining was interesting.

And he was like, huh, why don't we take this communist concept and turn it into a pool of people, you know, sharing that hash rate and mining Bitcoin.

So, yeah, I love this.

So Slush Pool was the first commie mining pool then?

Well, the whole pooling was basically like invented, right? Yeah,

So basically, what Satoshi said to his employees was, "Check out Bitcoin.

It's very cool." One of the people who checked out Bitcoin and started mining is Slush, the guy who created Slush Pool.

So the first person to invent mining pools was actually onboarded by Zooko to Bitcoin.

And I, I think part of the reason why there is such a large movement in Czech Republic surrounding Bitcoin is the creation of Slush Pool and Trezor.

So Slush ...

So sorry, did Slush, Slush, Slush Pool be- came before Trezor?

It did, 2010.

Wow, that guy's sick, man.