At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top China based CEO’ operating in the Bitcoin space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Samson Mow
Founder and CEO of Pixelmatic
Samson Mow is Blockstream’s CSO and Pixelmatic’s CEO. Blockstream is the leading provider of blockchain technologies, on the forefront of work in cryptography and distributed systems. Samson founded Pixelmatic in 2011 to creating engaging games that are truly social and encourage new connections to be made. Previously at BTCC, one of the largest bitcoin exchanges and mining pools in the world, Samson’s role as COO was to oversee the day-to-day operations of the company and directly manage the exchange and mining pool business units. Previously, Samson was a director of production and executive producer at Ubisoft, where he spearheaded expansion into Asian markets for web, social, and mobile games. Samson oversaw ongoing development and live operations of the cross-platform (web and iOS) MMO strategy game “Might & Magic: Heroes Kingdoms” in Asia, along with the social games “Castle & Co” (Facebook, mixi, Naver) and “The Smurfs & Co” (Facebook, mixi). “The Smurfs & Co” is Ubisoft’s most successful social game to date, reaching over 10 million users through organic growth. Prior to Ubisoft, Samson was in charge of business development and operations at Sitemasher, a Vancouver based startup developing a SaaS platform for building websites and apps. Sitemasher was the winner of the 2008 Blue Sky Innovation Excellence Award from Microsoft and was later acquired by Salesforce.com for US$20 million and rebranded as Site.com.
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About Blockstream, Infinite Fleet, Pixelmatic: Pixelmatic is a gaming company that develops social mobile games.
Jihan Wu
Co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Bitmain
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About Bitmain, Matrixport: Bitmain is a design and manufacture of high performance computing chips and software.
Zhaoxing Luo
Founder and CEO of BIT Mining Limited
Zhaoxing Luo is the founder and CEO of 500.com, a Chinese online lottery transaction platform. Luo graduated from Wuhan University majoring in Biology in 1990. After graduation Luo was involved in the textile business and warehouse management. In 2007 Luo has been named as the one of the ten most influential people in China.
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About BIT Mining Limited: BIT Mining Limited is a cryptocurrency mining enterprise that acquires cryptocurrency mining machines to mine for both Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Henry Wang
Founder and CEO of SmartMesh Foundation Pte. Ltd.
Henry Wang is the Founder and CEO of SmartMesh. He is also the Founder and President of International Blockchain Application Federation (IBAF). Henry’s drive and vision is to build SmartMesh (www.smartmesh.io) the InterPlanetary Decentralized Autonomous Mobile Mesh Network and promote the next generation application ecosystems, which can build the global sharing platform of interconnection and interoperation based on blockchain. Henry founded the International Blockchain Application Federation (IBAF) to promote worldwide blockchain applications. Henry earned his M.S. in Beijing University, and he pursued PHD study at Physics Department in Northwestern University with a full scholarship. In 2000, Henry transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for PHD study in Computer Science. He earned the Master Degree with expertise in Internet Tunneling Protocol Design. Henry is a thought leader and an expert on Internet Protocols, Blockchain, IoT, ASIC Design, Artificial Intelligence, and Edge Computing.
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About SmartMesh Foundation Pte. Ltd.: infrastructure, communication protocol, mesh network, blockchain, off-internet communication, off-internet payment
N.G. Zhang
Founder & CEO of Canaan Creative
N.G. Zhang is the founder of Canaan Creative.He is the Next Generation (N.G.) of CEO from Mainland China who combines the best technologies and philosophies from China and the rest of the world. He invented the first blockchain hardware mining tech by embedding software algorithms into FPGA hardware and branding the products, Icarus and Lancelot. The success of these products led to the founding of the innovative technology company, Canaan Creative. Since initiating the blockchain hardware industry, N.G. created the first ASIC blockchain hardware mining product line, the Avalon. N.G. manages Canaan, a 100 person strong growing company bringing innovations to the world from myth to reality.
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About Canaan Creative: Canaan Creative is a producer of Blockchain servers and solutions for repetition ASIC chips.
Benny Li
Chairman and CEO of HuaXia Finance
Benny Li obtained a B.A. in Economics and Business from UC Berkeley in 1992. He has over 20 years of experiences in Greater China’s financial sector. After leading regional business development for large-scale international banks such as Citi and Deutsche. Benny Li joined famous Chinese fintech company Creditease in 2011, in the capacity of GM of Channel Division. In June of 2015, Benny Li founded HuaXia Finance, one of the few FDI-approved Chinese Internet financial service platforms. HuaXia Finance has now signed an official contract of escrow account ownership with PingAn Bank, and has released the audit report 3 times so far.
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About HuaXia Finance: HuaXia Finance was established with the approval of The Central State Administration of Industry and Commerce.
Chang jia
Founder & CEO of 8btc.com
CEO and Founder of 8btc, Blockchain Researcher, Sci-Fi Writer. Editor and Co-author of Bitcoin, A Real yet Virtual Financial World (2014), and Blockchain: From Digital Currency to Credit Society (2016).
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About 8btc.com: 8btc.com is a bitcoin forum with live pricing in different countries.
Andy Zheng
Co-Founder and CEO of BeeCast
Andy Zheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at BeeCast.
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About BeeCast: BeeCast is a comprehensive service platform providing integrated news & other blockchain information.
Andy Zheng
Co-Founder and CEO of BeeCast
Andy Zheng is the Co-Founder and CEO at BeeCast.
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About BeeCast: BeeCast is a comprehensive service platform providing integrated news & other blockchain information.
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