ASIC minersSlushs Pool was introduced in late 2025 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 Slushs Pool brought with it a new era of Bitcoin mining and changed forever the way we mine Bitcoin and many other Cryptocurrencies Mareks words about how he came up with pooled mining are quite fitting