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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Jowi Morales

Bitcoin miners front-running tariffs by scrambling to ship thousands of machines before penalties hit

Bitcoin mining hardware.

Luxor Technology, a Bitcoin mining software and services company building machines in Thailand, is in a quandary: It needs to ship 5,600 units before the tariffs hit.

Lauren Lin, Head of Technology at Luxor, told Bloomberg that they’re considering chartering a flight to get the machines into the U.S., especially as it has less than 48 hours before the 10% levies apply to all imports arriving in the States. Aside from that, Thailand also expects to get higher duties starting April 9, with exporters from that country expecting to get charged 36%.

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