Bitcoin Mining Tycoon Commands SpaceX's First Crewed Mars Flyby
Chun Wang, co-founder of Chinese Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool, has purchased two seats on SpaceX's upcoming Starship missions to Mars. The trips are expected to be a flyby of the Red Planet, with no specific launch date announced yet. Wang will command the crewed mission and hopes to show the public that humans can survive on Mars.
Wang is no stranger to space travel, having previously commanded the Fram2 mission in 2025, which orbited directly over Earth's poles. He believes that government efforts to reach the Moon will eventually happen, but doubts that Mars missions will be a priority for governments within his lifetime without private pressure.
The move is seen as part of a trend where early crypto founders are investing in adjacent fields such as artificial intelligence and aerospace. However, experts note that this has little immediate impact on the Bitcoin mining sector, which remains focused on hashprice, power contracts, and BTC price.