US officials take energetic measures against Bitcoin mining hardware imports: report

Bitcoin’s mining hardware faces greater scrutiny of US officials. Recent seizures at the entry points hint in a broader impulse of application that could affect the main manufacturers and miners equally.

At the request of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Customs and Border Protection of the United States (CBP) has been taking Bitcoin Mining Asic in the entry ports throughout the country.

According to CBP documents revised For blockspace and Insider sources, the agency also began to stop mining teams from Microbt and Canaan. The CBP has intensified its application efforts, expanding last year’s arrest of the Antminer S21 and T21 miners, which, according to the reports, were maintained due to their firm files now restricted Sophgo.

Now, CBP seems to have expanded its scope to include ASIC of Microbt and Canaan and, for the first time, it is also confiscating the bitmain units since these actions began last autumn.

A CBP letter stated that the miners were “seized and subject to confiscation” under the US legal code. 19 USC 1595a (c) (2) (a). It includes restrictions on unauthorized communications equipment, radiofrequency devices that cause interference and hardware that lacks approval or compliance with the FCC.

With the expansion of the detainees, the co -founder and digital CEO of Synteq, Taras Kulyk, declared that almost all Asic manufacturers of Asic are experiencing customs authorization problems. A source confirmed that multiple clients have seized hardware in new ports beyond Detroit and San Francisco, and another company is now looking for legal partners to combat seizures.

The last repression can be linked to the impulse of the Trump administration to return the United States to the United States. Given the scale of Bitcoin’s mining operations and its Silicon dependence, this effort is in line with Trump’s goal to support national miners to extract the remaining 1,042 million of Bitcoin.