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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Eric Trump’s cryptocurrency firm tumbles nearly 40% amid ‘crypto winter’

A man in front of a sign that says ABTC
Eric Trump speaks before ringing the opening bell at the Nasdaq in New York in September 2025. Photograph: Victor J Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Shares in Eric Trump’s crypto mining business lost nearly 40% of their value in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday.

The nosedive of American Bitcoin Corp, which triggered repeated trading halts, followed the steep decline of many cryptocurrencies and crypto-linked companies into what some observers are calling the onset of a “crypto winter”. Bitcoin’s value has fallen sharply since the start of October and erased a year of large gains.

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