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As a global leader in the crypto mining industry, our F2Pool team is passionate about connecting people interested in blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and mining. Moscow is a vibrant city with a huge mining community and that's why we chose it as our first stop! It's our honor to co-host with [https://www.whatsminer.com/ Whatsminer], one of the leaders in the ASIC manufacturing industry.

== Whatsminer: changing the game ==

In July 2016, Yang Zuoxing (Dr. Yang) founded MicroBT, where he has served as Chairman, CEO, and CTO. His career in hardware and chip design has taken many interesting turns over the years. After graduating with a PhD from Tsinghua University, in 2014, Zuoxing entered the cryptocurrency world when he worked for China's first crypto mining hardware maker, Friedcat. Here he designed a hardware chip which, in terms of power consumption, outperformed some of the leading models on the market. Following this he was the first to apply the full-customization chip design methodology for advanced processes, whilst competitors still used APR (auto place and routing).

MicroBT's machines were first recognized when they released their Whatsminer M10 series. The M10S, with 55 TH/s and 65 W/T performance was the best miner in 2018. It had the highest hash rate and unrivaled power efficiency, regarded at one point as the "Hash King". Building on the success of the M10 Series, Whatsminer released the M20 Series only seven months after the M10 launch.

=== Whatsminer M20S ===

* Hashrate: '''68 TH/s'''

=== Whatsminer M21S ===

* Hashrate: '''56 TH/s'''