Top Chinese Bitcoin mining companies are strategically moving operations to the United States in response to tariffs and geopolitical pressures. Companies such as Bitmain, MicroBT, and Canaan are just some of the companies setting up operations in the US market. These companies do all they can to offset the effects of those tariffs and stay one step ahead of competition.

Bitmain’s US manufacturing operation started producing mining rigs in December. This action followed, of course, Donald Trump’s election victory in the November presidential election. It shows that we’re proactive about addressing possible trade barriers before they can become problematic.

MicroBT, the third-ranked supplier by sales, is following suit with a localization strategy. This strategy is meant to avoid the cost burden of tariffs on covered imported products.

Canaan to start trial production for its US-side operations following announcement of the so-called Liberation Day levies. Leo Wang, senior executive at Canaan, told us that this initiative was exploratory. Its primary purpose was to evade tariffs on imports.

US-based Bitcoin mining startup Auradine is urging the federal government to cut off Chinese supply of Bitcoin mining hardware. Sanjay Gupta, the chief strategy officer of Auradine, argues that this would create more meaningful competition in the US private market.

Right now, North America is home to more than 30% of Bitcoin mining operations. Over 90% of the hardware that makes these miracles work comes from China. This geographic mismatch between where the demand is and where the supply is has been a major point of contention among industry stakeholders.

Thousands of illegal Chinese mining rigs are already connected to the US electrical grids. Gupta focused on one aspect of the guidance, questioning the prudence of artificially increasing security risks by tying government hardware to foreign-made adversary-dependent production.