F2Pool co-founder to fly to Mars on SpaceX spacecraft
F2Pool mining pool co-founder Chun Wang will participate in SpaceX’s first crewed mission to Mars. He will travel aboard Starship on a two-year expedition that will go beyond the Earth-Moon system.
According to SpaceX’s website, the crew is expected to conduct a Mars flyby and then return to Earth. Before the Mars flight, Wang will also take part in SpaceX’s first commercial crewed mission around the Moon on Starship. It is expected to last one week.
“After we come back from Mars, we will have the opportunity to take some real photos, especially of Mars. Mars will no longer be a distant place. It will become reality,” Wang said in a published video.
SpaceX, which is currently preparing for an IPO, did not name exact launch dates for either the lunar or Mars mission involving Wang.
The company noted that since 2020, SpaceX has safely carried 78 crew members to and from space across 20 missions. These included seven commercial and private astronaut flights. Through the two missions involving Wang, SpaceX aims to expand space tourism to the Moon and Mars.
The first crypto enthusiast in space
Chun Wang is an entrepreneur and one of the early participants in the Bitcoin industry, although he long remained a low-profile figure. He began buying and mining BTC back in 2011, when the cryptocurrency was worth from a few cents to a few dollars.
In 2013, Wang co-founded F2Pool with Shixing Mao — the first mining pool in China and one of the largest operators of its kind in the world. Later, in 2018, he launched Stakefish, a validator for various crypto protocols. Despite the scale of his business, Wang rarely appeared in the media and was mostly known within the mining industry.
Beyond his crypto business, Wang has already become part of SpaceX’s private space program. In 2025, he led the Fram2 mission — the first crewed flight over Earth’s polar regions aboard Crew Dragon. The mission lasted about four days and focused on observing the North and South Poles, as well as studying rare atmospheric phenomena. Wang not only funded the flight but also took part in preparing the mission, from the initial idea and planning to selecting the trajectory and crew.
It is worth noting that shares of space companies have risen significantly recently.
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