15 years ago, the first Bitcoin mining pool was introduced by coder Slush. This was the birth of Bitcoin CZ, which would become Slush Pool, and is still operating today under the moniker of Braiins Pool. The group claims to have mined 1,311,339 bitcoins over the last 15 years, which would be worth $115 billion at today's valuation, or $162 billion at Bitcoin's peak valuation earlier this year.
The first and original mining pool started with 60,000 KH/s of power. In 2025, this pool goes brrr-kerching at 13.56 EH/s. Thus, it wields about 225 billion times more computing power than its original incarnation.
