Bitcoin (BTC) mining rig manufacturer Bitmain has issued a notice to customers stating that business organization operations will resume as normal in light of old chairman and CEO Jihan Wu'south departure from the company.

Orders of Bitmain's ASIC mining rigs were previously halted temporarily in 2020 during an internal power struggle at the Beijing-based hardware company.

In a dramatic saga that saw Bitmain's 2 co-founders, Micree Zhan and Wu, attempt to oust one some other from the leadership of the company, Zhan temporarily stopped a Shenzen subsidiary from shipping products to customers, as reported by local outlet The Cake Beats at the time.

On Wednesday, hours after Wu amicably left the visitor (after buying $600 million worth of shares from Zhan and other shareholders), the team behind Bitmain's flagship Antminer production released a argument telling customers to wait business organisation as normal:

"Antminer is here to inform yous that product delivery and sales services will not be affected past Bitmain'southward internal changes. Our sales policy for customers remains unchanged, and all signed contracts will keep to perform in accordance with the terms and atmospheric condition."

Bitmain was founded in 2013 past Zhan and Wu, and by 2018, it had become the largest manufacturer of ASIC machines for Bitcoin mining in the world. The company besides runs two mining pools, Antpool and BTC.com, which collectively account for around xx% of all Bitcoin mining and 30% of Bitcoin Greenbacks (BCH) mining.

The company'southward influence has seen it at the forefront of several Bitcoin-related dramas over the years, non least during the 2017 hard fork that saw Bitcoin Cash pause abroad from Bitcoin. Bitmain sided with Bitcoin Cash during the hard fork, which arose as a result of ideological disagreements over aspects of Bitcoin'south design — specifically, the size of blocks.

Despite uncertainty regarding the leadership of the visitor, Bitmain secured a contract for 15,000 of its Antminer S19 serial machines from Riot Blockchain, a Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency mining firm, in Dec 2020 in a deal worth $35 million.

Concerns almost stockpiles of unsold trade may have been silenced somewhat over the New Twelvemonth period equally Bitcoin mining profitability increased by over 330%, according to the latest information from BitInfoCharts.