Shixing Mao

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel

Discus Fish is the CEO and co-founder of Cobo, a leading global developer building the infrastructure that makes cryptocurrencies and decentralized apps easily accessible to anyone. Cobo’s flagship product, launched in February 2018, is Cobo Wallet, the first mobile wallet that offers proof-of-stake pooling services for users, a groundbreaking innovation that assimilates to interests and dividends. Considered to be China’s cryptocurrency pioneer, for first introducing cryptocurrency to China in 2011 with his widely viewed mining tutorials, Discus Fish was a moderator of the first Chinese Bitcoin forum, BTCMAN, and the first Litecoin forum, LTCBBS. He later contributed to the marketing of Avalon, the first cryptocurrency ASIC miner from Canaan, which filed for an IPO in May 2018, and became co-founder and COO of Yibite, the first Bitcoin portal in China. In 2013, Discus Fish was most well known for co-founding F2Pool, the first mining pool in China, where he shifted the reliance on oversea mining pools to China and also pioneered the 24 hour settlement protocol, which is now considered a global standard today. Now the largest multi-currency mining pool in the world, F2Pool is globally the #1 Ethereum and Litecoin miner, and the 5th largest Bitcoin miner.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
1
Shixing Mao has made 1 investments. Their most recent investment was on Dec 5, 2021, when Meson Network raised $5M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Dec 5, 2021 Meson Network Series Unknown $5M Blockchain Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Shixing Mao has 1 current jobs including Co-Founder and CEO at Cobo , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Cobo Co-Founder and CEO Nov 1, 2017 Detail