Homeland Security is reportedly heavily investigating Bitcoin Mining Bitmain for national security reasons
According to a new report coming out BloombergFederal authorities have quietly dug into Bitmain, the Beijing-based Bitcoin Mining Hardware Deving Giant, out of fear that its devices could serve as a backdoor for Chinese espionage or deliberate blackouts on the US power grid. The Department of Homeland Security is said to have been running on the idea of a secret “sunset open Red” for months, with agents cracking down on imported devices at more ports in exchange for hidden assassinations or remote access tactics.
This concern is that these integrated Bitcoin computers (ASICs) for Bitcoin, which are often moved to large data centers near energy hotspots that double as military bases, can be pulled from afar to conduct sensitive spying.
The investigation builds on the red years of red flags, from the 2024 biden-era cina At a powerful bitmain mining site very close to Wyoming Misle Base, Bipartisan Senate Prance committee discipline This summer is about “distancing the risk” of gear that could allow the Beijingers to pull the strings from afar. Bitmain, for its part, calls everything nonsense, insisting that there is zero way to control its antminer rigs from China, and that it has never heard of any “red sun operation.”
Of course, Beijing’s fear of cheap backdoors in hardware has been rife for more than CEADARE, with applications ranging from civilian military equipment to force Subcontractors to soler-size spy chips into supermicro Server boards at vodafone coming down Found Backdoors hidden in Huawei Telecom Gear shipped to Italy. Just a year, Reports used In unregistered mobile models infected with solar inverters sold across Europe and the US, in a full house that is silent even if they are powered, they encourage firmware breaks and flash firmware.
That said, hard evidence that the goals of the Stolotal Stolotage Times are always attacked (or divided).
Trump family business connection to bitmain
The Bitmain investigation is also interesting from the perspective of the Trump family’s global involvement in the crypto sector. Eric and Don Jr. they are knee-deep in the so-called American Bitcoin deal, and in August, the company snapped up 16,000 bitmain devices in a $314 million deal.
Of all the cryplorld crypto plays, this one at least looks like straight mining rather than the pump-and-duntration theater typical of the industry in general. Other crypto operations involving the Trump family include Forgetting around the pardon of Crypto Exchange CEO, A wonderful memoirno Tokenization of the Trump-Brand Real Estate Development.
Despite the optics that can be opting to use a business that simply mines Bitcoins, one will wonder: How deep is the renewal of national security in reality working with their hardware from the company?
This is not the first time Bitmain has been accused of hidden capabilities
It is also worth noting that bitmain has already been accused of backdoors in their hardware during Bitcoin’s “Block Fijool” around 2017, when the community was divided by the division of the network. An entire ecosystem of developers and many users were united behind a decentralized application (Segwit); However, the functionality of this development requires 95% of miners to support signing.
Bitmain, whose Antpools are controlled by a large chunk of hashharte, was a participant in the operation of Segwit, as Jihan Wu pressed hard with rust the size of the unity to release the size of the contradiction, to move the risk that risks.
Supporting evidence That formation was not only that Segwit ended up being opposed, as it is suspected to protect the secret sauce quirk of the antminer exploiting the quirk in the 30% cost. It turned out that Segwit would kill that profit.
Bitmain claims that this was a smear campaign, but the damage was done: It seemed that the world’s most prominent Miniver was determined to hold back the development of the network’s competitive edge. Segwit will eventually find its way to Bitcoin without drastic increases in block sizes.
After some months, bitmain faced another controversy in the form of -And a lotwhich was a “flaw” (critics called it an outright backdoor) in the antminer firmware that allowed the company to remotely shut down mining rigs. Bitmain said this background was misunderstood and eventually removed it.
Wen Knots / Chachalys Putrolish Announcement? they have great tech to identify suspicious transactions.
– Kyle Torpey (@kyletorpey) November 18, 2025
These ghosts from bitcoin’s past end up lighting up the present, because mining remains a major problem. Ideas like CACHANCOR’s classic proposal . recent debate on the use of transaction filtering by nodes It shows some Bitcoin users are willing to accept software that has opened the door to completely different concepts.
