Alejandro de la Torre, as CEO of Demand Mining Pool, leads the pioneering StratumV2 pool initiative, advancing decentralization in the Bitcoin mining sector. His notable contributions include involvement in the open-source Stratum Reference Implementation and coordination of the Bitcoin Taproot upgrade via a miner-activated soft fork. Formerly, he served as Vice President at Poolin and co-founded BTC.com, both significant players in the mining pool industry. Alejandro speaks globally about Bitcoin mining at various conferences and local meetups.