American Bitcoin Corp (Nasdaq: ABTC) – the Trump‑family‑backed Bitcoin mining and accumulation company – is back at the center of the crypto spotlight today after multiple reports confirmed that the Scaramucci family has invested over $100 million into the firm, part of a $220 million pre‑IPO funding round completed before its Nasdaq debut. [1]
The fresh coverage of that deal lands just days after American Bitcoin reported its first quarterly profit, a more‑than fourfold jump in revenue and a strategic Bitcoin reserve that now tops 4,000 BTC, intensifying debate over the company’s valuation, political ties and long‑term risk profile. [2]
Key takeaways at a glance
- Scaramucci family investment: AJ Scaramucci’s Solari Capital led a July financing that raised $220 million, with the Scaramucci family contributing more than $100 million, now widely reported on November 16. [3]
- Q3 2025 results: American Bitcoin’s Q3 revenue surged to $64.2 million, up from about $11.6 million a year earlier, while net income flipped to roughly $3.5 million profit from a prior loss. [4]
- Mining scale: The company now runs 77,944 miners with fleet capacity of 25 EH/s (21.9 EH/s energized) at an average efficiency of 16.3 J/TH, putting it among the largest listed miners. [5]
- Bitcoin reserve: ABTC added more than 3,000 BTC in Q3, ending September with 3,418 BTC and subsequently lifting its strategic reserve to 4,004 BTC as of November 5. [6]
- Stock today: ABTC last closed at $4.86 on November 14, valuing the company around $4.4 billion and leaving shares about 24% below their September IPO level. [7]
- Macro backdrop: The news hits during Bitcoin’s worst week since March, with BTC sliding below $95,000 and some analysts eyeing potential downside toward $84,000. [8]
Scaramucci family pours $100M+ into American Bitcoin
Today’s headline story: the family of SkyBridge founder and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has become one of American Bitcoin’s largest outside backers.
According to reporting aggregated by CryptoRank and NewsBTC, AJ Scaramucci’s firm Solari Capital led a July pre‑IPO round for American Bitcoin that raised $220 million in total. Solari’s check is said to exceed $100 million, with Anthony Scaramucci also making a smaller personal contribution. [9]
Coverage from multiple outlets today (November 16) – including Markets.com, Coingape and regional crypto media – frames the investment as a high‑conviction bet on Bitcoin infrastructure, not just on the BTC price. [10]
Key details from the newly spotlighted financing:
- Timing: The round was completed in July 2025, before American Bitcoin’s September reverse‑merger listing on Nasdaq. [11]
- Lead investor:Solari Capital (AJ Scaramucci) led the deal, with Anthony Scaramucci participating personally. [12]
- Other backers: Reports cite additional investors including Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and several real‑estate and tech entrepreneurs. [13]
- Use of proceeds: Filings and coverage indicate the capital helped fund large Bitmain hardware orders, expand mining sites and build a growing on‑balance‑sheet Bitcoin reserve. [14]
The political optics are unavoidable: the Scaramucci family’s nine‑figure commitment is flowing into a company co‑founded by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., in partnership with Canadian miner Hut 8, at a time when President Donald Trump’s administration is championing looser crypto regulation. [15]
Eric Trump doubles down: “digital gold” and a challenge to bullion
Also making headlines today, Eric Trump used Yahoo Finance’s Invest event to reiterate his ultra‑bullish stance on Bitcoin. In remarks reported by NewsBTC, he argued that capital will increasingly rotate out of gold and into BTC, pointing to:
- Bitcoin’s fixed supply of 21 million coins
- Growing institutional demand and corporate treasuries
- Frictionless, cross‑border settlement versus physical metal logistics [16]
In a Fox Business interview cited in the same article, Trump repeated a long‑term price target of $1 million per Bitcoin, and reportedly called BTC the “greatest asset” ever – while acknowledging that crypto markets remain volatile. [17]
For American Bitcoin, these comments matter because the company pitches itself explicitly as a way to own “digital gold” via stock, combining self‑mining with an aggressively managed corporate BTC treasury. [18]
Q3 2025 earnings: revenue up 453%, first profit on record
Just two days before today’s funding headlines, American Bitcoin posted its third‑quarter 2025 results, marking its first profitable quarter as a public company.
According to the company’s filings and coverage from Reuters, CoinDesk and Bitcoin Magazine:
- Revenue: Q3 2025 revenue reached $64.2 million, up from about $11.6 million a year earlier – a roughly 453% year‑over‑year increase. [19]
- Net income: ABTC reported around $3.5 million in net income, compared with a $0.6 million loss in the prior‑year quarter. [20]
- Adjusted EBITDA: A StockTitan summary of the earnings release cites $27.7 million in adjusted EBITDA for the quarter. [21]
- Business model: Management credited “asset‑light” mining operations and disciplined BTC purchases made below market prices for widening margins. [22]
Coindesk notes that this was American Bitcoin’s first full quarter as a listed company following its September merger with Gryphon Digital Mining, and that the strong results helped Hut 8’s stock bounce on an otherwise weak day for crypto miners. [23]
77,944 miners, 25 EH/s: inside ABTC’s mining operations
Beneath the headline numbers, American Bitcoin’s latest filings and independent analyses paint a picture of a miner scaling hard into the current cycle:
- Fleet size: As of September 30, ABTC operated 77,944 Bitcoin miners, according to its 10‑Q and industry coverage. [24]
- Hashrate: That fleet represents 25.0 exahash per second (EH/s) of capacity, with 21.9 EH/s energized during Q3. [25]
- Efficiency: The weighted average fleet efficiency stands at about 16.3 joules per terahash (J/TH) – competitive with other large‑scale miners. [26]
- New hardware: A MinerMag report says Q3 growth was boosted by ABTC exercising an option to buy 17,280 Bitmain U3S21EXPH miners totaling 15 EH/s, lifting realized hashrate above 12.5 EH/s. [27]
- Production: In Q3 alone, the company mined 563 BTC, more than half of the 1,006 BTC it produced in the first nine months of 2025. [28]
American Bitcoin’s core operating advantage is its tight partnership with Hut 8, which provides data‑center infrastructure in locations such as Texas and Canada, plus shared services that lower per‑coin costs. [29]
Reuters and NewsBTC both note that company officials claim their West Texas operations can produce Bitcoin at less than half of the current spot price, giving ABTC a margin buffer even in a choppy market. [30]
“Strategic reserve” play: 4,004 BTC and the SPS metric
If mining is the engine, the Bitcoin reserve is the chassis ABTC is trying to show off to investors.
Recent disclosures and press releases show:
- Q3 accumulation: ABTC added over 3,000 BTC in Q3, ending 30 September with 3,418 BTC on its balance sheet. [31]
- Subsequent purchases: An October 27 press release and follow‑up filings detail additional acquisitions that lifted the reserve to 3,865 BTC, then 3,960 BTC, and finally 4,004 BTC as of November 5. [32]
- Satoshis Per Share (SPS): Management highlights a proprietary “Satoshis Per Share” (SPS) metric – essentially BTC per share expressed in satoshis. As of November 5, SPS stood at 432, up 3.35% in just 12 days. [33]
Eric Trump has repeatedly framed American Bitcoin as a “Bitcoin accumulation machine” – a vehicle that mines BTC and systematically adds coins through market purchases, similar to how MicroStrategy has treated its BTC treasury. [34]
GuruFocus’ SWOT analysis of ABTC, released after the latest 10‑Q, notes that the 4,000+ BTC reserve and 25 EH/s fleet are key strengths that provide both operating leverage and a sizable balance‑sheet cushion – but also concentrate the company’s fate around one volatile asset. [35]
ABTC stock: volatile trading, rich valuation and mixed signals
On the market side, American Bitcoin has already lived up to its billing as a high‑beta crypto proxy.
Data from StockInvest.us and Simply Wall St show:
- Last close (Nov 14): ABTC ended Friday at $4.86, up 2.53% on the day, after trading between $4.50 and $5.19. Roughly 5 million shares changed hands, signaling elevated interest. [36]
- Market cap: Simply Wall St pegs the company’s market capitalization around $4.4 billion, based on trailing‑twelve‑month revenue of $122.5 million and earnings of $166.5 million (boosted by non‑cash items linked to Bitcoin). [37]
- Range and drawdown: The 52‑week range runs from about $4.08 to $10.24, with the stock down roughly 24% from its IPO level in early September. [38]
- Volatility: ABTC’s average weekly share‑price move is about 13.8%, versus 7.8% for the broader U.S. software/tech peer group. [39]
Technical and fundamental opinions are split:
- StockInvest.us currently labels ABTC a “sell candidate”, citing a broadly falling short‑term trend and high day‑to‑day volatility, even as short‑term momentum has turned positive. [40]
- Simply Wall St’s model suggests the shares trade well above its estimated intrinsic value, highlighting heavy non‑cash earnings, volatile margins and limited track record, even while acknowledging rapid revenue growth. [41]
- A MarketBeat instant alert notes that research platform Wall Street Zen recently downgraded American Bitcoin from “hold” to “sell,” underlining growing caution among some analysts after the IPO rally and Q3 run‑up. [42]
Meanwhile, MinerMag and other market‑structure outlets observed that ABTC shares fell as much as 13–17% in pre‑market trading on November 14 when the Q3 report hit, before recovering part of the losses – a reminder that even strong headline numbers don’t guarantee smooth price action in a jittery crypto tape. [43]
ESG, regulation and legal overhangs: the risk side of the ledger
Beyond price volatility, a series of recent analyses highlight non‑price risks that investors are watching closely:
- Energy and ESG: An in‑depth AInvest report published today puts ABTC’s growth in the context of a mining industry that now sources an estimated 52.4% of its power from non‑fossil fuels. While American Bitcoin’s exact mix isn’t disclosed, the piece notes that miners relying on grid power could face pressure as carbon‑border rules like the EU’s CBAM evolve. [44]
- Regulatory uncertainty: GuruFocus flags ongoing PPP loan reviews tied to legacy Gryphon operations and litigation with its former CEO as potential financial and reputational risks, alongside the broader, fast‑shifting U.S. crypto policy landscape. [45]
- Governance: Simply Wall St’s key‑developments feed reiterates that ABTC currently has no independent directors, something governance trackers view as a red flag for a newly public company with high political exposure. [46]
- Hardware/security optics: CryptoRank’s summary of NewsBTC’s Scaramucci piece notes that ABTC’s unusually favorable hardware terms with a major Chinese manufacturer, including extended payment plans secured by pledged Bitcoin, have raised national‑security and dependency questions in some coverage. [47]
Add in macro risk: CoinDesk points out that Bitcoin has just logged its worst week since March, down about 9% with some strategists eyeing a possible retrace toward $84,000, while Bianco Research warns that crypto is on track to be 2025’s worst‑performing asset class if BTC and ETH don’t recover by year‑end. [48]
For a company whose fortunes are tightly linked to BTC’s price and whose reserve is increasingly large, that backdrop matters.
How today’s news fits into the bigger American Bitcoin story
In less than a year, American Bitcoin has gone from a Trump‑linked private venture to a Nasdaq‑listed Bitcoin giant majority‑owned by Hut 8, operating tens of thousands of miners and holding a multi‑billion‑dollar BTC stash. [49]
Today’s November 16 headlines extend that narrative in three key ways:
- Institutional validation with caveats
The Scaramucci family’s nine‑figure stake is a notable vote of confidence from well‑known Wall Street players, reinforcing the idea that Bitcoin infrastructure – not just BTC itself – is attracting serious capital. At the same time, it further entwines ABTC with high‑profile political and financial personalities, increasing both visibility and scrutiny. [50] - Proof of operating leverage
Q3 numbers confirm that ABTC’s mining scale and treasury strategy can deliver profits when BTC trades near record levels, especially if production costs remain far below spot. But with such a short public track record, investors will want to see how those economics hold up if Bitcoin’s current correction deepens. [51] - A still‑unsettled risk/return profile
Between legal issues inherited from Gryphon, governance questions, energy‑mix uncertainty and an extremely volatile share price, American Bitcoin remains a high‑risk, high‑beta way to express a bullish view on BTC and U.S. Bitcoin infrastructure – not a conservative income stock. [52]
FAQ: what investors are asking about ABTC today
What happened with American Bitcoin on November 16, 2025?
The main new development is media disclosure and analysis of July’s financing round, confirming that the Scaramucci family invested over $100 million into ABTC via Solari Capital. This adds a large, high‑profile backer to the shareholder base and has sparked fresh discussion of the company’s prospects and politics. [53]
How many Bitcoin does American Bitcoin hold now?
Based on Q3 filings and a November 7 reserve update, ABTC’s strategic reserve has grown from 3,418 BTC at quarter‑end to 4,004 BTC as of November 5, 2025, including coins pledged for miner purchases. [54]
Is ABTC the same as the “American Bitcoin” token some sites quote?
No. This article is about American Bitcoin Corp (Nasdaq: ABTC), a U.S. Bitcoin mining and treasury company. Some price‑prediction sites also track a tiny altcoin with a similar name, but that token is unrelated to the Nasdaq‑listed stock. [55]
Is this investment advice?
No. All information here is for news and educational purposes only. Crypto‑related equities like ABTC are volatile and speculative. Anyone considering an investment should do their own research and, ideally, consult a qualified financial adviser.
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