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Chun Wang Steps Away From F2Pool to Lead SpaceX’s 2-Year Interplanetary Starship Flight
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F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang has been named Mission Commander for SpaceX’s first crewed interplanetary Starship flight, a roughly two-year mission targeting a high-altitude Mars flyby without landing.
Key facts
- Over the past week, the pool produced 114 blocks across a network tracking 1,007 total blocks from 21 active pools
- Wang holds citizenship in Saint Kitts and Nevis and Malta, and his personal bitcoin holdings are estimated at over $300 million
- That mission lasted approximately 3.5 days and carried 22 onboard experiments, including the first X-ray conducted in space
- Born in Tianjin, China, around 1982, Wang started mining bitcoin in 2011
Summary
SpaceX named F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang Mission Commander for its first crewed interplanetary Starship flight in 2026. F2Pool controls 11.32% of Bitcoin’s global hashrate at 110.86 EH/s, producing 114 blocks over the past week, according mempool.space stats. Wang takes a two-year leave from F2Pool, previously commanding the Fram2 polar orbit mission aboard Crew Dragon in 2025. SpaceX confirmed Wang’s appointment on May 22, 2026.