{"id":8101,"date":"2025-11-10T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/trumps-bitcoin-bet-grows-american-bitcoin-now-holds-over-4000-btc\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T05:11:07","slug":"trumps-bitcoin-bet-grows-american-bitcoin-now-holds-over-4000-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/trumps-bitcoin-bet-grows-american-bitcoin-now-holds-over-4000-btc\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Bitcoin Bet Grows: American Bitcoin Now Holds Over 4,000 BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Bitcoin, the Nasdaq-listed mining and treasury firm<\/a> backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has raised its Bitcoin stash to 4,000 BTC<\/a>, worth about $415 million, according to a company announcement released Friday.<\/p>\n

The firm purchased nearly 170 BTC between October 24 and November 5, a haul valued at more than $14 million at current market rates.<\/p>\n

American Bitcoin Boosts Holdings<\/h2>\n

Eric Trump, listed as co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, said the company is growing its stock of Bitcoin through a mix of scaled mining operations and market purchases.<\/p>\n

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Reports<\/a> have disclosed that this size of accumulation puts American Bitcoin at about the 25th spot among corporate Bitcoin holders, based on data from Bitcointreasuries.net.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Michael Saylor-led Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) remains far ahead as the largest corporate holder with more than 641,000 BTC on its books, worth around $66 billion.<\/p>\n

Trump-Linked Ventures Report Large Crypto Gains<\/h2>\n

Based on reports, members of the Trump family have collected roughly $1 billion in pre-tax gains<\/a> over the last year from a range of crypto projects.<\/p>\n

Those projects include memecoins such as TRUMP and MELANIA, which together reportedly brought in about $427 million, plus the WLFI<\/a> token with about $550 million in gains.<\/p>\n

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Reports also point to big outside backers. Chinese entrepreneur Justin Sun is reported to have invested $75 million in WLFI, while Abu Dhabi\u2019s MGX fund is said to have provided $2 billion to Binance using the USD1 stablecoin. The family\u2019s various ventures have pushed their combined crypto exposure into the multi-billion dollar range.<\/p>\n

Mining Margins Squeeze Firms After Halving<\/p>\n

Miners across the sector are feeling pressure after the 2024 Bitcoin halving cut block rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.<\/p>\n

That change tightened profit margins, forcing some operators to seek new revenue streams, including AI-focused computing services.<\/p>\n

American Bitcoin\u2019s model ties mining and treasury accumulation together, but the economics for smaller miners are getting tougher.<\/p>\n

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TRUMP MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY GROUP HOLDS OVER $1 BILLION OF BITCOIN<\/p>\n

Trump Media and Technology Group ($DJT) has disclosed holdings of over $1.3 Billion of BTC as of September 30th 2025.$DJT<\/a> holds $BTC<\/a>. pic.twitter.com\/WzAIOnN29y<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Arkham (@arkham) November 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Trump Media\u2019s Holdings And The Broader Picture<\/p>\n

Regulatory filings show that Trump Media and Technology Group now holds more than 11,500 BTC, worth over $1.3 billion, even as the company records heavy operating losses.<\/p>\n

The concentration of Bitcoin across several Trump-linked businesses points to a deliberate strategy: treat Bitcoin as a reserve asset and a core part of several commercial efforts.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin was trading at $102,175<\/a> at press time, up a meager 0.3% over 24 hours. That price sits about 15% below the all-time high of $126,000 reached in early October.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American Bitcoin, the Nasdaq-listed mining and treasury firm backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., has raised its Bitcoin stash to 4,000 BTC, worth about $415 million, according to a company announcement released Friday. The firm purchased nearly 170 BTC between October 24 and November 5, a haul valued at more than $14 million…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[3179,73,70,19,72,1456,163,463,1478],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency-market-news","tag-american-bitcoin","tag-btc","tag-btcusd","tag-crypto","tag-cryptocurrency-market-news","tag-melania","tag-memecoins","tag-trump","tag-trump-coin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcotasks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}