{"id":12948,"date":"2025-02-13T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12948"},"modified":"2025-02-13T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:15:13","slug":"bitcoin-mining-equipment-seized-at-us-ports-nationwide-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=12948","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Mining Equipment Seized At US Ports Nationwide: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection has expanded its crackdown on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/cryptocurrency-mining\">cryptocurrency mining equipment<\/a>, seizing <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) mining ASICs at multiple ports across the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>Acting on requests from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency has not only detained shipments of Bitmain&#8217;s Antminer S21 and T21 models but is now targeting hardware from rival manufacturers MicroBT and Canaan as well, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/blockspace.media\/insight\/cbp-ramps-up-asic-miner-crackdown-with-seizures-new-import-holds\/\">report <\/a>by Blockspace.<\/p>\n<p>The widening scope of enforcement marks a significant escalation in regulatory scrutiny on mining hardware imports.<\/p>\n<p>Documents reviewed by Blockspace and sources confirmed that CBP is actively holding shipments of mining units at entry points, citing compliance issues related to FCC regulations. <\/p>\n<p>The seizures come after earlier concerns that some mining units contained AI chips sourced from <strong>Sophgo<\/strong>, a Chinese company that the U.S. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43702814\/bitcoin-mining-equipment-seized-at-us-ports-nationwide-report\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" mining equipment seized at us ports nationwide: report>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection has expanded its crackdown on cryptocurrency mining equipment, seizing Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining ASICs at multiple ports across the country. What Happened: Acting on requests from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency has not only detained shipments of Bitmain&#8217;s Antminer S21 and T21 models but is now targeting hardware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-12948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}