F2Pool
One of the first Chinese Bitcoin mining pools, co-founded by Wang Chun, who signed both the Hong Kong Roundtable and the New York Agreement.
The wiki's angle: F2Pool is the miners' signature on both compromise documents of the war. It signed the 2016 Roundtable that promised a hard fork after SegWit and the 2017 agreement that tried again.[3][4]
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Founding
Wikipedia says Chun Wang borrowed $40,000 from his father in 2011 to invest in early cryptocurrency ventures and had co-founded F2Pool by 2013, and that for a time F2Pool was the world's largest bitcoin mining operation[1].
In the war
Fork Wars lists F2Pool among the mining companies on the programme of the Scaling Bitcoin workshop in Hong Kong in December 2015[2]. Wang Chun signed the February 2016 Roundtable statement as “Admin, F2Pool”[3], and F2Pool is among the New York Agreement signatories[4]. See Hong Kong Roundtable and New York Agreement.
References
- secondaryWikipedia, “Chun Wang” (F2Pool co-founder) [archived]
- btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]
- primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
- primaryDigital Currency Group, “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017”, Medium, 23 May 2017 (Wayback Machine copy)