Wiki / People / Haipo Yang

Haipo Yang

From the Bitcoin Takeover Wiki · ✓ 3 sources · 0 podcast anchors · built 2026-11-13

Founder and CEO of ViaBTC, who wrote the pool's code in May 2016; ViaBTC suggested the name Bitcoin Cash and mined its first block.

◆ Takeover vieweditorial · opinion, labelled

The wiki's angle: a single developer's mining pool, a year old at the time, named the most important Bitcoin fork and mined its first block — a measure of how much a pool operator could shape the split.[1][2][3]

Contents

  1. ViaBTC
  2. Bitcoin Cash
  3. References

ViaBTC

A 2024 ViaBTC interview says that “In May 2016, Haipo Yang single-handedly completed all the code for the ViaBTC Pool”, and that the pool mined its first block on 5 June 2016[1]. The same interview lists the businesses that followed: CoinEx Exchange, CoinEx Wallet, CSC (CoinEx Smart Chain) and ViaBTC Capital[1].

Bitcoin Cash

Wikipedia says that in July 2017 “the mining pool ViaBTC suggested the name Bitcoin Cash for the fork”[2]. Bitcoin Takeover's Fork Wars timeline records that the first Bitcoin Cash block, 478,559, was mined by ViaBTC[3]. See ViaBTC for the pool's history[1].

References

  1. primaryViaBTC, “Interview with ViaBTC CEO: Reflections on Eight Years of Entrepreneurship”, 7 Jun 2024 [archived]
  2. secondaryWikipedia, “Bitcoin Cash” [archived]
  3. btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]

Related

ViaBTC
The mining pool founded by Haipo Yang in 2016 that suggested the name Bitcoin Cash, listed it before the split
Bitcoin Cash
The big-block fork of 1 August 2017, Bitcoin's first durable chain split.
Jihan Wu
Co-founder of Bitmain, a signer of the 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement whose company backed the 2017 New Y
Roger Ver
Early Bitcoin investor and leading Bitcoin Cash advocate; co-author of Hijacking Bitcoin (2024).
Categories: People
Ask about this article: >_ terminal · Onion mirror: http://btctkvroa6xsq25wmpvvlpkcgss7724zk6fm765fvtuunfgxw74j2pyd.onion/wiki/haipo-yang/
>_ ask the wiki