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Slush’s Pool mines its first block

Bitcoin Pooled Mining, later known as Slush Pool, found its first mainnet block using cooperative hash power.

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The pool distributed work and paid miners in proportion to contributed computation. This reduced income variance for participants and helped establish the pool model used throughout industrial mining.