PANews reported on June 8th that, according to TheEnergyMag, Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) disclosed in regulatory filings that COO Chao Suo and CBO Linghui Kong resigned from their respective executive positions on June 8th for personal reasons, but will continue to assume undisclosed new roles within the company. The company has not yet announced their successors. The report indicates that Kong previously served as CEO, and after being succeeded by founder and chairman Jihan Wu as CEO in March 2024, he became CBO; Suo became COO in September 2024, responsible for day-to-day operations and reporting to Wu. This personnel change comes as Bitdeer is pushing for a vertically integrated transformation from a Bitcoin mining operator to a provider of self-developed SEALMINER ASICs, expanding its self-operated computing power, and AI cloud and high-performance computing infrastructure.