The first person to buy Bitcoin in China, he bought coins on Taobao and became worth 17 billion yuan. He developed tools to monitor employee speech

Wu Jihan, co-founder of Bitmain, has a wealth of 17 billion yuan, becoming the richest "blockchain person" born in the 1980s, ranking 7th on the list.

Many people have never heard of Wu Jihan. Baidu Encyclopedia only has three sentences to introduce him:

Wu Jihan, male, Beijing native, co-founder of Bitmain.

In August 2019, he was ranked 1511th on the 2019 Forbes Global Billionaires List.

Ranked 214th on the 2019 Hurun Rich List.

However, in the currency circle, he is known as the overlord of the Bitcoin world.

Bought the first Bitcoin on Taobao

In 2011, 25-year-old Wu Jihan first came into contact with Bitcoin through a project: "I spent two or three days studying the technical possibilities, and I think it overturned all my previous cognition."

Wu Jihan immediately called friends to raise funds, "Tell them that there is an investment project with relatively high risks and huge potential returns. Either lose everything or make a hundred times more."

However, in the end, he did not convince a few friends, but just bought Bitcoins on Taobao with all his savings.

In the same year, Wu Jihan met Liu Zhipeng, an engineer at the Guangxi Land and Resources Planning Institute. He started writing science fiction novels at the age of 16, and has a more well-known name: Chang Jian.

The two pooled a few thousand yuan to rent a server and set up a Bitcoin consulting website named Babbitt. The website specializes in translating foreign articles about Bitcoin, attracting a large number of early Bitcoin players.

Wu Jihan also translated Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin creation paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" into Chinese, which is still regarded as a textbook by Bitcoin believers.

With a net worth of tens of millions, he quit his job to mine

After 2012, a new round of Bitcoin bull market started. In August of the same year, Jiang Xinyu ("Baomao"), a student of the 2001 junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China, established a company in Shenzhen, announced plans to manufacture ASIC mining machines, and raised funds online through a "virtual IPO" project.

In July 2013, the mine created by "Baomao" company could mine nearly 40,000 bitcoins every month, worth tens of millions of RMB. By investing in "Baomao", Wu Jihan has a net worth of tens of millions.#Lista #PEPEUSDT $SOL