Back to the Timeline
2010
Event
milestone
The first mining pool launches
What happened
Marek "Slush" Palatinus launched Bitcoin.cz — the "Bitcoin Pooled Mining Server," later Slush Pool — the first pool to let small miners combine hash power and share block rewards proportionally.
Significance
As GPU mining made solo blocks rare for ordinary participants, pooled mining kept mining accessible — and established the pool model that organizes most of Bitcoin's hash power to this day.