Written by: Yanz, Liam

Edited by: Liam

On the evening of March 31, 2025, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket rose from the ground in a brilliant blaze of fire. The rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft "Resilience" broke through the sound barrier, pierced the atmosphere, and headed towards an orbit never before traversed by humans - the Earth's polar orbit. "Fram" means "forward" in Norwegian and was also the name of a pioneering polar exploration ship in the late 19th century. In 1893, the ship named "Fram" led scientists to open a new chapter in human polar exploration. Over the past 60 years, human space exploration has made tremendous progress: leaving footprints on the moon, sending probes to the edge of the solar system, and even establishing a space station. **However, no manned spacecraft had ever flown over the Earth's North and South Poles until the arrival of Fram2.** Fram2 created a milestone in space history, with humans observing the Earth from a polar perspective for the first time. Even more surprisingly, Fram2 was not a space exploration mission by any government, **but an exploration journey funded by a Chinese entrepreneur who spent $200 million.** This low-key and mysterious entrepreneur named Wang Chun, an important figure in global Bitcoin mining, has become the second private space mission initiator in history after billionaire Jared Issacman (current NASA director). Before the mission, his friend Bao Erye posted on X, **stating that Wang Chun had not made any Bitcoin private key backups and had said that if the mission encountered danger, his Bitcoin would be permanently destroyed.** Who exactly is Wang Chun? What belief would make someone willing to stake their life on the scale of exploration, pouring $200 million just to find an unknown answer in space? (The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach)

Wang Chun likes to recruit different people, or geniuses, often giving some "IQ test questions" related to numbers during interviews, but he also frankly admits that "the tricky thing about geniuses is that they can't be managed".

Wang Chun at work is interesting; he loves interacting with different Bitcoiners around the globe, but outside of work, he is seen as someone who doesn't get along well with friends. "It's hard to say who is a friend; there are too many businessmen in this circle. It's difficult to make friends".

When not working, Wang Chun enjoys reading. There was a time when he was reading the book "Parallel Universes".

How big is the universe? What is in it? Perhaps these are the questions he has been trying to answer on his adventurous journey.

High-Speed Rail Thousand-Trip Man, Always on the Road

"He rode trains and high-speed rails long ago, then flew around the world's planes, and going to space was a natural progression."

Zhang Li was not surprised at all about Wang Chun's space adventure.

In Zhang Li's memory, "Wang Chun would often be in Beijing in the morning and might fly to who knows which country by night, yet surprisingly would still be found in the office the next day."

Going to Afghanistan, staying at a nearby hotel after leaving the airport, and flying away early the next day - this is a typical Wang Chun-style trip, a simple destination check-in enthusiast.

Compared to planes, Wang Chun actually prefers trains.

In 2007, Wang Chun traveled only on weekends, shuttling 75,900 kilometers on railways, which means he spent two months of the year on trains, with the other 10 months dedicated to sleeping and the office.

He once showed Zhang Li the train ticket stubs from 2008, echoing his former Weibo nickname - "High-Speed Rail Thousand-Trip Man".

Image: Li's Description

In 2013, Wang Chun checked off all Chinese provinces using high-speed rail/trains, then shifted his check-in mission to the sky and recorded each flight on social media.

"This is the 110th air travel in 2019, Air China CA4029 flight from Chengdu Shuangliu to Beijing Daxing, this flight is the inaugural Air China CTU-PKX route, thus not bypassing Ordos." On October 27, 2019, Wang Chun wrote in his friend circle.

In 2021, even during the pandemic, he visited 27 countries and set foot on the Antarctic continent, crossing snow-covered wilderness to experience the harshness and loneliness of the southernmost point of Earth.

Two years later, in 2023, he again stepped onto the frozen land of the Arctic, exploring the boundless ice fields and the phenomena of polar day and night.

His life goal is to visit all countries and regions in the ISO3166 code, 249 in total.

"My journey is shaped by lifelong curiosity and a fascination with breaking boundaries," Wang Chun once explained his love for travel in an interview.

Currently, Wang Chun has completed 54% of his target journey (135 out of 249) and extended his check-in map to space orbits.

"Hello, Antarctica. Contrary to previous expectations, looking from 460 kilometers high, it's pure white, with no sign of human activity."

On April 2nd at 16:14, Wang Chun posted his new check-in from above the polar region.

This time, he re-examined the lands he had once measured with his own feet from a completely new perspective.

Counting, Ascending

"Counter," this is the nickname given to Wang Chun by his friend Super Jun.

This nickname can be interpreted as measuring time with blocks, maintaining blockchain order with computing power, and a more direct explanation is that he has an almost obsessive love for numbers.

From a young age, he was enthusiastic about memorizing pi, square root of two, square root of three, and even remembering private keys by heart.

When interviewing employees, he would even ask candidates, what is a specific digit of pi?

Most talked about is his 2,523-day QQ signature count. From middle school, he would change his signature to an increasing number daily, from 1 to 2,523, stopping only when he felt bored, with his QQ signature ultimately stopping at 2,523.

This seemingly arbitrary number later became the name of F2Pool, which he co-founded with "Rainbow Angelfish" - the "2" comes from the first character of his QQ nickname "2".

In the cryptocurrency industry, people usually like to give Bitcoin OGs a nickname, "Ten Thousand Coin Marquis".

No one knows exactly how many BTCs Wang Chun had at his peak, but it can be confirmed that it's definitely more than ten thousand. Wang Chun also openly tells his friends how many bitcoins he has "wasted".

For example, in 2016, Wang Chun sold 5,000 bitcoins to buy a luxury apartment on the 67th floor of the Pixel Landmark Building in Bangkok, when Bitcoin was priced at 6,000 yuan, and now Bitcoin is priced at 600,000 yuan.

Besides being a Bitcoin whale, Wang Chun is also a Dogecoin supporter. He once operated http://dogecoin.org and made a Dogecoin movie 'Dogecoin Billionaire', later donating the domain name to the Dogecoin Foundation for free.

On November 11, 2024, Wang Chun proudly stated that since F2Pool's launch in 2013, they have mined 1.62 billion $DOGE, accounting for 11% of the existing Dogecoin supply.

(Note: 1.62 billion DOGE is the collective mining achievement of the entire mining pool and its miners, not Wang Chun's personal mining volume. The mining pool plays a role in organizing and allocating computing resources, providing stable mining services for global miners.)

The next day (November 12), Wang Chun set a flag, "If DOGE price breaks $1, I will purchase a Mars mission and fly over Phobos, mission name Marsrise, launch date January 19, 2029, the last day of Trump's term."

Also loving space exploration, Wang Chun's life seems destined to intersect with another Dogecoin supporter - Musk, and Wang Chun is also a Tesla owner.

Now, Wang Chun has ridden SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, "roaming" in the Earth's polar orbit, accompanied by the stars.

He carried a piece of the 19th-century polar exploration ship "Fram" deck wood on the mission, paying tribute to the spirit of polar exploration.

On the Farm2 website, a "Star Wars"-style opening crawl scrolls:

On March 31, 2025, at 21:46:50 Eastern Time, SpaceX will launch Fram2. You will see that human space flight is no longer like before.

Following the glorious path of early heroic polar pioneers, a four-person space expedition team from six countries will become the first humans to fly over the Earth's North and South Poles and witness the polar wilderness from space. They will orbit the Earth for 3 to 5 days...

The crew plans to complete 22 scientific experiments during the mission, including capturing auroras, studying the effects of weightlessness on the human body, and other experiments that not only provide data for scientific research but also accumulate experience for future space exploration.

In an interview with CBS, Wang Chun said: "This mission is not about going to space, but about pushing boundaries, sharing knowledge... We hope our mission can inspire more people to pursue their curiosity."

Zweig wrote in "The Starry Moments of Humanity": "The greatest luck in a person's life is to discover their mission in the middle of their life, when they are in their prime."

Wang Chun is lucky, simple and pure.

A former Bitcoin mining professional stated that although he does not agree with Wang Chun's views on certain ideologies, he admires his consistent dedication to his mission and passion, without being corrupted by the crypto.

In his view, the crypto is like a big dyeing vat, where most early participants were grassroots, and many people released their human desires after becoming overnight millionaires, immersing themselves in the noisy world of luxury. Only Wang Chun actively embraced solitude.

His ex-girlfriend commented that Wang Chun is not like people in the crypto. "His world is nothing but code, stars, and the sea. I'm envious that he can always maintain his unique 'childlike nature' in the chaotic crypto. Perhaps having fewer friends is his optimal solution."

In March, Wang Chun posted a tweet with a photo of himself next to the Moai statues on Easter Island in Chile, alongside a corresponding Ghibli-style AI photo, with a caption that artificial intelligence is making our world a better place.

This might be the life Wang Chun yearns for, finding his own tranquility and freedom at the intersection of technology and poetry.

Wang Chun's story begins with numbers and order, counting in time, counting in space, and then completing the countdown before the Falcon 9 rocket launch, searching for true stars in polar orbit.

At this moment, he is gazing at the more distant starry sea. This journey, expected to last 3 days and 14 hours, is an unfinished adventure and an unfulfilled human dream.

Beyond the stars, more unknowns are waiting, and Wang Chun is still on the road.