Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:11 am

Hi Bitcoiners!it's time for some questions and answers again... You can ask me anything about Slush Pool or TREZOR hardware wallet but I will happy to talk to you about other topics. Don't be afraid to even ask anything silly, in worst case I will just tactfully ignore.After unsuccessful career of baby violinist around my 7 years, I became a computer geek and I spent the rest of my life in front of monitor. I worked for many online startups and also made valuable experience in banking industry as enterprise IT architect. In 2010, I discovered bitcoin as a technological curiosity. Gradually, I became obsessed and started discovering its economic and social implications. In 2011, I left my daily job and went Bitcoin full-time and it seems that there is no going back from the Rabbit hole.As a active Bitcoin user from the beginning, I was always naturally focused on solving the practical side of the Bitcoin. My first addition to Bitcoin ecosystem came from the increasing difficulty of mining since 2010. Putting the mining power together with other users in a safe way seemed to be the right answer, but nobody seemed to be about to implemented so I picked the slack myself. Similar story can be told about the idea of hardware wallet which was around from 2011. Everybody including myself were struggling with keeping our bitcoins safe. Strangely, there were no usable alternative to paper wallet safety until 2014 when SatoshiLabs shipped TREZOR. By now, it is widely acknowledged that hardware wallets are essential to Bitcoin / cryptocurrency and industry is picking up. I am also very active in Paralelni Polis, the world-first bitcoin-only space where Bitcoin plays important role ideologically and technologically.Slush Pool has been founded in December 2010 as world-first bitcoin mining pool introducing share-based pool concept. In 2012 Slush Pool introduces ASIC-ready Stratum mining protocol, which is currently being used by vast majority of network hashrate. Pool controls around 40 PHash/s, keeping pool in TOP10 and is kept up by a team of six highly skilled professionals. Since beginning, pool is open for all miners around the world, but recently it focuses on delivery services for high-profile miners including private pool servers and advanced miner monitoring.TREZOR is the #1 bitcoin hardware wallet, known as the safe for cryptocurrencies and other digital assets. Widely endorsed by security experts but also popular for being a very intuitive and easy to use tool for newcomers to Bitcoin or users with average computer skills. TREZOR is gradually expanding into a digital identity vault, we have introduced a password-less login to websites but it's potential is way more far reaching.