The company behind Slush Pool, the first cryptocurrency mining pool to make its services publicly available, is rebranding.
The Prague-based company Braiins is perhaps less well-known than Slush Pool, one of the largest bitcoin mining pools as it makes up more than 9 percent of the cryptocurrency's hashrate today.
Braiins has been operating it since it purchased the historic mining pool six years ago.
Now, Braiins is moving to make its involvement with Slush Pool more obvious, in part with a redesign of its logo and all its product websites.
"After running and developing Slush Pool for the last six years more or less in the background, we're going to take a more visible public position."
"The rebranding will also unify our other products and services, including Braiins OS," Buračinský continued.
Miners need to run what's known as "Firmware" on their mining devices to monitor the performance.
Braiins OS, launched September of last year, differs from other mining firmwares because it's open-source - it's not closed off like other proprietary firmwares.
The firm is working on a new "Payout" feature for the mining pool, which would allow miners to have more control of how they get paid.
Further, Braiins "Replacing the CGMiner with Rust implementation" for Braiins OS, which would make "Adding new hardware much easier," according to the firm.
Bitcoin's First Public Mining Pool Is Rebranding
gepubliceerd op Jun 3, 2019
by Coindesk | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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