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Jihan Wu

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Co-founder of Bitmain, a signer of the 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement whose company backed the 2017 New York Agreement, and a leading backer of Bitcoin Cash.

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The wiki's angle: the most powerful miner in the war, present at every negotiating table that Fork Wars tracks: Hong Kong, New York and the 2x suspension.[6][2][5]

Contents

  1. Early years
  2. Bitmain
  3. Bitcoin Cash
  4. Later
  5. References

Early years

Wu was born in 1986 in Chongqing and earned degrees in economics and psychology from Peking University in 2009[1]. In late 2011 he was the first to translate Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper into Chinese[1].

Bitmain

In 2013 he persuaded engineer Micree Zhan to co-found Bitmain, whose first rig, the Antminer S1, appeared in November 2013[1]. He signed the February 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement as Bitmain's Co-CEO, and Bitmain appears on the May 2017 New York Agreement supporter list[2][3].

Bitcoin Cash

Wu was a vocal supporter of larger blocks, and critics accused him of masterminding the Bitcoin Cash fork, which he denied[1]. In November 2018 he and Roger Ver backed the Bitcoin ABC side against Bitcoin SV[4]. He co-signed the November 2017 message that suspended SegWit2x[5].

Later

He stepped down as co-CEO of Bitmain in 2019 and founded Matrixport; in 2021 he left Bitmain, with Bitdeer spun off under his chairmanship[1].

References

  1. secondaryWikipedia, “Jihan Wu” [archived]
  2. primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
  3. primaryDigital Currency Group, “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement at Consensus 2017”, Medium, 23 May 2017 (Wayback Machine copy)
  4. secondaryWikipedia, “Bitcoin Satoshi Vision” [archived]
  5. primaryMike Belshe et al., “Segwit2x Final Steps”, bitcoin-segwit2x mailing list, 8 Nov 2017 (Wayback Machine copy)
  6. btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]

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Bitmain
The Beijing ASIC maker co-founded by Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan, operator of Antpool and BTC.com, and a major Bi
Bitcoin Cash
The big-block fork of 1 August 2017, Bitcoin's first durable chain split.
Hong Kong Roundtable
The February 2016 meeting where miners and some Core contributors agreed SegWit first, then a roughly 2 MB har
New York Agreement
The May 2017 industry deal to activate SegWit at 80% and hard fork to 2 MB within six months, which became Seg
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