New Year’s Changes at SatoshiLabs

Hello our eager fans and dear Bitcoiners,

With much regret, we announce that Alena Vranova will no longer serve as the CEO of SatoshiLabs. Being a talented business developer and an ardent Bitcoin supporter, Alena has decided to step down and leave the company for a new challenge. Effective January 17th, 2017, Alena will start working independently and will focus exclusively on her new business ideas related to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Despite of her departure, some of her new ventures will remain TREZOR-related. Alena will continue to cooperate closely with us as a part of her new business, in order to develop business connections for TREZOR.

We will try to suppress our tears; a great colleague of ours is leaving after all. Instead, we wish Alena all the best into the future! Surely, you too will join us in supporting her and making sure she is doing well!

Marek Palatinus as the New CEO

With Alena leaving the team, Marek Palatinus, the Architect of TREZOR, takes over as the new CEO of SatoshiLabs.

Marek, alongside with Alena and Pavol “Stick” Rusnak, is the original founder of SatoshiLabs and one of the co-inventors of TREZOR. He also stands behind the first bitcoin mining pool in the world, Slush Pool, and has co-authored the Stratum mining protocol, as well as many BIPs.

As the CEO of SatoshiLabs, Marek will take care of the day-to-day business, while continuing to develop TREZOR and TREZOR 2. No other organizational changes are expected. The transition has occurred smoothly, with all of the planned projects progressing further, according to the schedule.

Plans into 2017

The main plan for the first half of 2017 is to develop the TREZOR 2 into a full product, ready to ship to you! The centralization of all services into the main domain will continue also with full speed. trezor.io will be the hub for all TREZOR products. More info here.

With TREZOR 2, we are also preparing the release of TREZOR Core, the development environment for the second generation of TREZOR. We are very excited about what this year will be for us, but surely, it will be busy!

Thank you for your continuous support! Without you, not SatoshiLabs nor TREZOR would be where we are today.