The story below is written by Liu Jing from AI Caijing. Full text translation may help you find some pieces of the puzzle. His last and only public presentation happened in 2014, when the Bitfountain company was baffled by exploding ASIC chips. He went missing in February 2015, which was first disclosed by a bitfountain shareholder on 8btc forum. There are many speculations from then on.
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Three years after Friedcat(FC) missing, we visited his mining farm in Huai’an City (Anhui Province), attempting to solve the biggest mystery in the bitcoin circle. It is an empty factory, located in Huaian Economic Development Zone. Aside from car tracks and footprints, only three two-storey plants are standing silently, like three monsters.
Stories about Friedcat never ends. Judging from his resume, he looks like a genius in soap play. He was admitted to the teenage class of University of Technology and Science of China when he was 15 years old, ranking 11th in the whole country. After that his career seems to be taking off, he went to Yale for Ph.D. in Computer Systems.
Friedcat’s real name is Jiang Xinyu. His random and scarce public presentation was in line with his anarchist fashion. But in the cryptocurrency community, he is more than famous. He was honored as the early prophet, evangelist of bitcoin. In China, he was the first person who brought mining ASICs to the world.
During the high season, there was a waiting list for people who wants to meet him. If he were to continue his career in the crypto world, he would be the owner of unbelievable wealth, the master of legends. But the story ended abruptly on January 25 of that year.
In the year that FC went missing, Huai’an police cracked down a mafia gang. Huaian’s population density is slightly below the medium level in Jiangsu Province. Non-local businessmen joined together by regions and form a dozens of business alliance.
The food company that worked with FC was a family business from Fujian. The stage 1 mining farm of FC was located in the one of the company’s workshop, which was surrounded by dense clothing factory, machinery factory, packing plant. After FC disappeared, colleagues went to site for inquiry but eventually stopped at gate and failed to get in.
http://news.8btc.com/tracking-friedcat-after-his-missing-in-2015
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