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|3 min ReadTrump-backed American Bitcoin lifts treasury to 415 million
Jax Morales
Senior Analyst
Published
Jan 16, 2026
American Bitcoin lifted its Bitcoin treasury to 415 million dollars, the company announced on Friday (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-bitcoin-adds-139-bitcoin-increasing-strategic-reserve-to-4-004-bitcoin-302608175.html). The move places the company as the 25th largest Bitcoin treasury, based on data from bitcointreasuries.net. “We continue to expand our Bitcoin holdings rapidly and cost-effectively through a dual strategy that integrates scaled Bitcoin mining operations with disciplined at-market purchases,” said co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Eric Trump.
The stock told its own story. American Bitcoin shares traded nearly 2 percent higher Friday afternoon in New York, after dipping earlier in the session. The company went public in September and says it aims to be the world’s largest and most efficient Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin itself traded around 126,000.
The Trump tie-up and a sector under pressure
American Bitcoin took shape after the Trump brothers merged their business with Hut 8, the Canada-based miner. The venture later combined with Gryphon Digital Mining through a stock-for-stock merger. American Bitcoin now sits among more than 200 publicly traded companies that hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets, following the playbook popularized by Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, which pivoted in August 2020 from software to buying Bitcoin to drive shareholder returns. Strategy is cited as holding more than 641,000 BTC worth over 36 billion, arguing that planned expansion could make Hut 8 one of the largest owners of power suited for AI, Bitcoin mining, or other high-compute uses.
Treasury strategy meets market reality
American Bitcoin says it will keep growing its stack through a mix of self-mined coins and at-market purchases. That discipline matters in a volatile tape. The firm’s intraday stock swings show how quickly sentiment shifts with Bitcoin’s price and headlines, yet the accumulation continues.
The company’s pitch is simple and aggressive. Build scale, lock energy, and convert capacity into coins. It is a classic treasury-plus-infrastructure story that Wall Street has seen before, now dressed in digital gold.
The broader takeaway is clear. Corporate treasuries still view Bitcoin as a strategic asset. Miners are evolving into power-and-compute platforms. And for American Bitcoin, a bigger balance of BTC is both a shield and a bet. If the market cycle turns up again, today’s disciplined shopping could look tremendous. If not, efficient operations and energy control decide who lasts and who folds.
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