Chun Wang ( zh, s=王纯, p=Wáng Chún) is a Chinese-born

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investor and entrepreneur.

Biography

Wang was born in

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, China. He later moved to

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in 2015, then to

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. He has been a citizen of

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since august 2023 and

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since 2017.

Bitcoin mining

In 2013, Wang co-founded F2Pool, one of the first

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mining pool In the context of cryptocurrency mining, a mining pool is the pooling of resources by miners, who share their processing power over a network, to split the reward equally, according to the amount of work they contributed to the probability of find ...

s in China and one of the largest globally.

Private spaceflight

On March 31 (April 1 UTC), 2025 the

Fram2 Fram2 was a private human spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX with a Crew Dragon spacecraft on behalf of entrepreneur Chun Wang. During the mission, Wang and his all-civilian crew — Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips — ...

mission of a

Crew Dragon Dragon 2 is a class of partially reusable spacecraft developed and manufactured by American aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, primarily for flights to the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX has also launched private missions such as In ...

spacecraft was successfully launched. It was the first human flight to go a

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, i.e., to fly over Earth's poles. The mission lasted 3.5 days, ending on 4 April 2025 at 16:19:28UTC (9:19:28a.m. PDT, local time at the landing site). It was the first Pacific splashdown for a Crew Dragon mission. Fram2 was privately funded and commanded by Wang, and operated by SpaceX with a Crew Dragon spacecraft. In addition to Wang, it flew his all-civilian crew — Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips.

References

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