F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang plans a Starship flyby of Mars, before SpaceX attempts to land humans on the surface.

Crypto executive Chun Wang has become the latest person to sign up for a deep-space mission with Elon Musk's SpaceX. Wang co-founded F2Pool in 2013, building it into one of the dominant Bitcoin mining pool operators globally. The company currently holds an 11.43% market share of the Bitcoin network's hashrate, according to Hashrate Index.

American space company SpaceX said that the commander of private space mission Fram2 is the first member of the crew for the Starship Mars mission.

Chun Wang, co-founder of the Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool and commander of SpaceX’s Fram2 private astronaut flight, has been named for Starship’s first interplanetary human spaceflight mission, a planned Mars fly-by that places a cryptocurrency entrepreneur at the centre of one of the most ambitious commercial space ventures yet announced.

SpaceX’s IPO filing revealed Elon Musk’s bonus package depends on ambitious targets tied to Mars colonisation and orbital computing. The compensation plan links payouts to SpaceX’s market value and futuristic goals including moving one million people to Mars.

F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang will command SpaceX's first crewed Mars flyby mission, a two-year interplanetary voyage testing Starship V3 architecture.

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