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The American customs may have believed that mining workers from bitcoin workers were radio frequency devices: Camera

cryptobizinvest.com March 7, 2025

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Customs and US Border Protection authorities (CBP) may have accidentally seized thousands of bitcoin miners under the impression that they were illegally imported for radio frequency devices.

Thousands of Chinese Chinese Bitcoin (BTCAccording to what was reported, miners in US entry ports were seized since September and only Release Again from a few weeks.

Industry players said that the CBP to seize Bitcoin miners came at the request of the US Federal Communications Communications Committee.

However, Ethan Vera, the chief operational officer at Luxor Technology of Bitcoin, told Cointelegraph that the FBC’s request was submitted by the wrong belief that bitcoin mines were radio frequency devices.

“We believe that CBP and/or the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) are wrongly classified asxs as radio frequency devices, although clear evidence is the opposite.”

Vera said Lucor saw the Call Out in the letters he received from CBP.

Any device that is charged in the United States must carry the radio frequency Detected VCC 740 model. However, Vera said that bitcoin mining machines are not designed to send radio frequency signals.

“Radical Frequency Equipment is devices designed to transport, receive or process radio waves. Vera said:

“They are wrong.”

Cointelegraph has arrived at CBP to comment but did not receive an immediate response.

It was initially understood that Holdup was associated with the chips designer associated with points Investigation of the Ministry of Commerce In October after chips like those I requested in Taiwan were found in the Huawei Ai processor. Huawei has been under US sanctions since 2019.

Industry players are not sure what Political motives Vera indicated that the seizures were or for how long the situation will continue.

He added that some bitcoin mining companies have gathered behind pressure groups to obtain a detailed explanation of the events and determine the best path forward.

Release Chinese bitcoin miners It comes as the Trump administration imposed a 10 % tariffs on Chinese imports.

The lead analyst Mitchell Askio of Blockware of Bitcoin Infrastructure Solutions said that the definitions can pay a dynamic similar to what happened in 2021, where An integrated circle for the application of bitcoin (ASEC) The prices of miners rose.

“The BTC Market was bull as a positive catalyst for ASIC, at the same time with the shock of the Covid supply chain, which was a negative incentive for supply-the combination of factors led to ASIC prices more than 10 x during a period of 12 months.”

However, Vera does not expect “major disturbances” for the ASIC supply chain, noting that many bitcoin mines imported in the United States comes from Southeast Asia, not China.