Wang Chun
Co-founder of F2Pool, signer of the 2016 Hong Kong Roundtable statement, founder of Stakefish, and commander of the 2025 Fram2 polar spaceflight.
The wiki's angle: Wang Chun's pool signed the 2016 compromise that promised a hard fork later, which never came on Bitcoin; F2Pool's founder then went on to the most literal exit of any block size war figure — orbit.[2][1]
Early years
Wikipedia says Wang Chun was born around 1982 in Tianjin, borrowed $40,000 from his father in 2011 to invest in early cryptocurrency ventures, and had made gains by 2013, when he co-founded F2Pool[1]. It adds that for a time F2Pool was the world's largest bitcoin mining operation[1].
Block size war
The Hong Kong Roundtable statement of February 2016 lists “Wang Chun Admin F2Pool” among its signers[2]. Bitcoin Takeover's Fork Wars timeline also records Wang Chun of F2Pool among the signers of the earlier Roundtable letter “A Call for Consensus” of 11 February 2016[3].
Later
Wikipedia says Wang launched Stakefish in 2018, privately funded and commanded the Fram2 Crew Dragon mission, launched on 31 March 2025 as the first human flight in a polar retrograde orbit, and became the first person from Malta to travel to space[1]. It gives Maltese citizenship since August 2023 and Saint Kitts and Nevis citizenship since 2017[1].
References
- secondaryWikipedia, “Chun Wang” (F2Pool co-founder) [archived]
- primaryBitcoin Roundtable, “Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus”, Medium, 20 Feb 2016 (Wayback Machine copy)
- btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]