American Customs may have thought that Bitcoin Miner was a radio frequency device.

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The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) authorities may have mistaken thousands of Bitcoin miners accidentally, with the impression that they have illegally imported radio frequency devices.

Thousands of Chinese Bitcoin (BTC) miners were seized in the US entry port in September and began to be released several weeks ago.

The CBP’s move to seize Bitcoin miners was at the request of the Federal Communications Commission Agency, industry players said.

However, Ethan Vera, the chief operating officer of Bitcoin Mining Firm Luxor Technology, said that the FCC’s request was made by Bitcoin miners as a radio frequency device.

“We think that CBP and/or FCC is wrongly classified as radio frequency devices despite clear evidence of Bitcoin Mining ASIC.”

Vera said Luxor saw the “call” the wireless frequency device with the characters received from the CBP.

All devices shipped to the United States, which carries wireless frequencies, must be disclosed in the FCC 740 form. But Vera said that the bitcoin mining machine was not designed to send a radio frequency signal.

“Wireless frequency equipment is a device designed to transmit, receive or manipulate wireless wavelengths. ASICS processes electrical signals, but intentionally does not create or send radio frequency signals, ”VERA said.

“They are mistaken.”

Cointelegraph contacted CBP for opinions but did not receive immediate answers.

Hold up was initially understood to be related to Bitmain -related chip designer SOPHGO, which was first found in the Huawei AI processor, such as chips ordered in Taiwan. Huawei has been under US sanctions since 2019.

Industry athletes are not sure what the political motives of seizures or how long the situation will last, Vera pointed out.

He added that some Bitcoin mining companies gathered to find detailed explanations about the event behind the lobbyist group and to determine the best way.

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The release of the Chinese Bitcoin miners occurs as the Trump administration imposes a 10%tariff on China’s imports.

Bitcoin Infrastructure company BLOCKWARE SOLUTIONS chief analyst MITCHELL ASKEW is Bitcoin Application-specific integrated circuit that tariffs can lead to the same reverse equivalent to what happened in 2021 (ASIC) The price of miners can soar.

“You sent the BTC BULL market as a positive catalyst for ASIC demand, and at the same time it was a negative supply catalyst with a covid supply chain.

But Vera points out that it does not expect a “serious confusion” of the ASIC supply chain, and it is pointed out that many Bitcoin miners imported from the United States came from Southeast Asia, not China.