Jihan Wu

Bio

• Was part of Hong Kong consensus
• Was part of the supporters for Segwit2x and also one of the 6 people who canceled it on 8-11-2017 by a joint statement with Mike Belshe, Wences Casares, Jeff Garzik, Peter Smith and Erik Voorhees.

Occupations

• Bitmain; Founding member, stepped down as CEO, remained as co-chairs. Bitmain’s director of product engineering Wang Haichao has reportedly assumed CEO duties, replacing co-founders Jihan Wu and Zhan Ketuan; Wu and Zhan were in a transition phase since Dec. 2018; the two will remain as co-chairs with Wang. Update (30-12-2020): "Has reportedly been bought out of the company by his co-founder, Micree Zhan, for $600 million."
• Has a new project (7-2019) called Matrixport which is in Beta. The beta release’s ambitious plans include custody services, OTC trading, and cryptocurrency lending while being “headquartered in Singapore with offices worldwide.". Update (2-8-2021): raised $100M in a Series C financing round.

• From Decrypt (30-12-2020):

"Wu will reportedly leave Bitmain but retain full control over several large international mining farms, including BTC.com and bitdeer. All other services, including mining rigs, artificial intelligence, antpool, and domestic mining pools belong to Zhan."