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American Bitcoin Corp.
Public bitcoin-mining and accumulation company majority-owned by Hut 8, with Eric and Donald Trump Jr. in named commercial roles.
Company facts
- Company
- American Bitcoin Corp.
- Origin
- March 31, 2025 Hut 8/ADC contribution transactions
- Stock listing
- Nasdaq: ABTC
- Majority owner
- Hut 8 Corp.
- Chief executive
- Mike Ho
- Trump family
- Eric Trump, co-founder and chief strategy officer; Donald Trump Jr., senior adviser
Formation, parent company and ownership
American Bitcoin Corp. (Nasdaq: ABTC) is a publicly traded cryptocurrency mining-and-accumulation business whose corporate history stems from a March 31, 2025 contribution agreement among Hut 8, ADC and ADC investors. Hut 8 contributed substantially all of its owned ASIC mining equipment for Class B shares carrying 80% of the new venture's equity and voting power at transaction formation. The firm was renamed American Bitcoin Corp. and remained a majority-owned Hut 8 subsidiary, not a solely Trump family-owned company. [1] [2]
The company became publicly traded in 2025. Its objective is to increase bitcoin reserves through self-mining, selected purchases and associated capital-market activity. Mining production, reserve ownership and borrowing secured against bitcoin are different financial accounts. [2] [3]
Management, Trump-family roles and corporate control
American Bitcoin's official team identifies Eric Trump as co-founder and chief strategy officer, Donald Trump Jr. as senior adviser, Mike Ho as chief executive officer and director, and Asher Genoot as executive chairman. The brothers' corporate titles should not be conflated with public office or the legal ownership of all company shares. [1]
The April 2026 SEC proxy listed Hut 8's approximately 80% of total voting power and Eric Trump's disclosed stock holdings. Those figures and shareholder control are governed by actual share classes, conversion terms and reporting dates. A November 2025 Schedule 13D/A reported 68,147,664 shares beneficially owned by Eric at that time, calculated at 7.3% under an earlier denominator; the 2026 proxy displayed a different voting-power percentage. [4] [5]
Bitcoin reserve and 2026 operations
The September 30, 2026 Form 10-Q recorded a reserve of approximately 8,427 bitcoin, including about 3,090 pledged in connection with miner purchases. Parent Hut 8's corresponding quarterly filing reported approximately 8,360 bitcoin separately held by Hut 8. These reserves must not be double-counted in any analysis of family wealth or mining output. [3] [7]
American Bitcoin completed a 1-for-15 reverse stock split effective in July 2026; filings identify its split-adjusted public trading. In its November 4, 2026 earnings statement, CEO Mike Ho described increased bitcoin-per-share despite seasonal power costs. Those are corporate financial assertions supported by the 10-Q and earnings release, not promises of future performance. [3] [6]
Financing, operational risks and government-policy context
The company's filings discuss exposure to changing bitcoin prices, mine power costs, asset depreciation, hardware acquisition, financing and the accounting treatment of bitcoin-linked instruments. Hut 8 reported a combined September 2026 quarter-end bitcoin holding value of roughly $1.4 billion for its own and American Bitcoin reserves based on the quarter-end quoted bitcoin price. That estimate was for corporate holdings and cannot be represented as Eric or Donald Jr.'s personal net worth. [7]
American Bitcoin's mining business is separate from World Liberty Financial, a stablecoin and governance-token venture also involving the two Trump brothers, Barron Trump and the Witkoff family. Industry regulation, procurement and federal energy policies may affect their businesses, but documented legal decisions must be identified before claims of favoritism are made. [1]
Documented institutional relationships
Source-qualified links connect American Bitcoin with its majority owner Hut 8; its executives Mike Ho and Asher Genoot; Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.; and the separately organized Trump Organization through its executives' overlapping roles. Parent, subsidiary, adviser, beneficial owner and founding roles are not synonymous. [1] [4]
The wider political and business context may be followed through Chapter 10 of The Story and the source-linked individual biographies.
Connections to The Story
Follow documented relationships back to the ten-chapter narrative.
References
Source and filing chronology checked through November 13, 2026.