Gryphon Digital Mining, a publicly traded Bitcoin miner primarily based in Las Vegas, Nevada, has obtained ultimate shareholder approval to merge with American Bitcoin, a mining firm linked to US President Donald Trump’s household.
Shareholders permitted the stock-for-stock merger on Wednesday, with the corporate asserting the choice on Friday. As a part of the deal, a reverse five-to-one inventory break up and new itemizing are scheduled for five:00 pm ET on Sept. 2.
As soon as the reverse break up is full, the mixed entity will undertake the American Bitcoin title and start buying and selling beneath the ticker image “ABTC.”
The reverse inventory break up will minimize the corporate’s excellent shares to about 16.6 million from 82.8 million, excluding any new issuances associated to the transaction.
The merger, first reported by Reuters earlier this week, follows an preliminary settlement in Could beneath which American Bitcoin would go public by merging with Gryphon.
After an preliminary surge on merger information, Gryphon’s inventory dropped greater than 10% on Friday, partially retracing Thursday’s 41% rally.
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American Bitcoin’s origins and technique
American Bitcoin debuted in March, when Trump’s sons, Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump, rebranded American Knowledge Heart beneath the brand new title. The enterprise was launched as a part of Hut 8, a digital asset mining and infrastructure firm.
At launch, American Bitcoin positioned itself as a “pure-play” Bitcoin mining firm, with plans to build up a big Bitcoin (BTC) treasury.
Its merger with Gryphon Digital Mining presents a quick observe to public markets by leveraging Gryphon’s present Nasdaq itemizing, eliminating the necessity for a separate preliminary public providing.
Theoretically, the deal additionally combines Gryphon’s low-cost mining infrastructure with American Bitcoin’s aggressive BTC accumulation technique, making a extra scalable and investor-friendly platform.
Whereas American Bitcoin has verifiably disclosed holdings of 215 BTC, estimates from BitcoinTreasuries.NET recommend the whole may very well be as excessive as 1,941 BTC.
The transfer comes as extra public firms pursue aggressive methods to develop their Bitcoin reserves. Collectively, they now maintain 989,926 BTC, with Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy accounting for almost 64% of the whole.
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