Trump family-backed American Bitcoin’s costs dropped 23% in Q1 as mining industry pivots to AI
The Trump family-linked miner cut its cost per Bitcoin to roughly $36,200 from $46,900 in Q4 2025, putting it among the lowest-cost public mining operations at a moment when most of its peers are toning down business.
What to know:
- American Bitcoin, the Trump brothers’ mining venture, cut its cost to mine one bitcoin by 23 percent in the first quarter to about $36,200, far below the industry average of roughly $80,000.
- The company posted an $81.8 million net loss largely due to mark-to-market declines in bitcoin prices, but said its core mining operations were profitable after excluding non-cash revaluations.
- American Bitcoin increased its bitcoin holdings by 30 percent to about 7,021 BTC, even as many rival public miners sell coins and pivot toward AI and high-performance computing, and its shares remain nearly 90 percent below their 2025 peak.
That puts it materially below the publicly listed miner average of around $80,000 per bitcoin in late 2025, as CoinDesk reported, and inside the band where mining at current bitcoin prices remains genuinely profitable rather than a managed loss.
The improvement came from spreading higher production volume across a stable fixed-cost base, plus what management called “continued energy pricing discipline.”
The Drumheller site in Alberta, which was switched on and began running miners in late March, added roughly 3.05 exahash of computing power, a measure of how many guesses per second the mining hardware can make to find new bitcoin. Total fleet capacity hit 28.1 exahash by quarter-end, with around 89,000 mining machines running.
As such, American Bitcoin posted an $81.8 million net loss for the quarter, with most of that driven by mark-to-market accounting on its bitcoin holdings as the price dropped roughly 22% over the period.
