Trump-backed American Bitcoin orders 16K Bitmain ASICs amid ongoing trade war

Bitmain recently announced it would open its first BTC mining hardware manufacturing facility in the United States by the end of 2025.

American Bitcoin, a Bitcoin (BTC) mining company backed by members of US President Donald Trump’s family, exercised an option to purchase up to 17,280 application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), hardware for crypto mining, from Bitmain earlier this month.

The mining company purchased a fleet of 16,299 Antminer U3S21EXPH units from Bitmain, capable of 14.02 exahashes per second (EH/s) of computing power, for about $314 million, according to TheMinerMag.

The deal also excluded any potential price increases from the Trump administration’s sweeping trade tariffs and import duties, which will impact Bitmain mining hardware manufactured in China.

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