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Kevin Pan

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Signed the 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement as AntPool's manager; a Kevin Pan (Zhibiao Pan) later founded the Poolin mining pool.

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The wiki's angle: the name sits at both ends of a Bitmain story — an AntPool signature in Hong Kong, then a rival pool after leaving Bitmain — but the link is not confirmed here.[1][2]

Contents

  1. Hong Kong Roundtable
  2. Poolin
  3. Identity
  4. References

Hong Kong Roundtable

The February 2016 Bitcoin Roundtable statement lists Kevin Pan, Manager, AntPool first among its signers[1].

Poolin

A 2019 Bitcoin Magazine interview says “CEO Zhibiao Pan started in the mining industry as the founder of TangPool in 2014 before joining Bitmain and later running BTC.com there”[2]. It says “He left the company in 2017 amid the hard fork drama” and founded Poolin with former BTC.com employees[2]. The interview's answers are labelled Kevin Pan, who said “Personally, I think the current status and power enjoyed by mining pools is a little too much”[2].

Identity

The interview does not mention AntPool or the Hong Kong statement, so this wiki does not confirm that the Hong Kong signer and Poolin's CEO are the same person[2][1].

References

  1. primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
  2. secondaryColin Harper, “Upstart Poolin Discusses Growth, State of Mining and Bitcoin in China”, Bitcoin Magazine, 11 Oct 2019 [archived]

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