Marek Palatinus, also known as Slush, is the inventor of the concept of a Bitcoin mining pool, operator of the Slush Pool, designer of the lightweight Stratum protocol, and the core programmer of TREZOR. With nearly 15 years of experience in IT, Marek has co-developed several successful internet startups and worked as an enterprise architect for one of the largest banks in Central Europe. Since his introduction to Bitcoin in 2010, he has devoted all his time to developing useful services and tools to promote the widespread adoption of Bitcoin.nnHe is the CEO and Head IT Architect at Satoshi Labs, which is responsible for creating some of the most widely used Bitcoin products (such as TREZOR, Slush Pool, and Coinmap).