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Bitmain Co-Founder
About Jihan Wu
In 2013, while most engineers were still debating Bitcoin’s viability, Jihan Wu led Bitmain’s development of the Antminer S1, the first commercially viable ASIC miner built entirely in-house, slashing power consumption by 90% compared to GPU rigs. That chip wasn’t just faster; it redefined mining economics, shifting dominance from dorm-room hobbyists to vertically integrated hardware firms with semiconductor supply chain leverage. His insistence on co-designing firmware, silicon, and thermal architecture, rather than outsourcing any layer, created a feedback loop no competitor could replicate for years. Wu’s quiet intensity showed in how he navigated China’s 2017 ICO ban not with retreat, but by pivoting Bitmain into AI chip development while quietly funding open-source mining pool protocols like BTC.com’s transparent block attribution system. He rarely gave interviews, yet his internal memos on hash rate centralization warnings shaped industry self-regulation debates long before the 2021 mining exodus from China.
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- “How did Bitmain’s decision to design its own 28nm ASICs in 2013 change mining decentralization?”
- “What technical trade-offs did you make when optimizing Antminer firmware for 24/7 uptime in Inner Mongolia data centers?”
- “Why did Bitmain invest in AI chips like the BM1682 while still leading in SHA-256 hardware?”
- “How did your team adapt mining pool infrastructure after China’s 2021 crypto mining ban?”