Crypto's 32-Year-Old Billionaire Mining King Mulls an IPO

  • Market boom has been good to Bitmain’s Jihan Wu, Micree Zhan
  • The Chinese company is open to an overseas stock listing
Cryptocurrency Billionaire Mining King Mulls an IPO
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With his baby face, eyeglasses and go-to outfit of T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, Jihan Wu looks more like a geeky teenager than a self-made billionaire.

But thanks to an early foray into cryptocurrencies, the soft-spoken 32-year-old is sitting on what may be one of the industry’s largest fortunes.