Micree Zhan
Micree Zhan or Zhan Ketuan is a Chinese electronics engineer and businessman. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Bitmain, the world’s largest computer chip company for cryptocurrency mining. In 2018, Hurun Report named him the richest cryptocurrency billionaire in the world.
- Micree Zhan cofounded Chinese crypto mining giant Bitmain Technologies with Jihan Wu in 2013.
- After a longstanding power struggle with Wu and other Bitmain executives, Zhan was ousted from the firm in October 2019.
- Bitmain is China’s largest digital currency mining company, specializing in selling ASIC-chip miners. Zhan remains its largest shareholder.
- Bitmain reportedly filed for a U.S. IPO in October 2019, more than a year after a failed attempt to go public on Hong Kong‘s stock exchange.
- Zhan graduated from Shandong University in 2001 with a degree in electrical engineering, and later built the ASIC chips that power Bitmain‘s hardware.
