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CBP ramps up ASIC miner crackdown with seizures, new import holdsblockspace.media/insight/cbp-ramps-up-asic-miner-crackdown-with-seizures-new-import-holds/
303 sats \ 1 comment \ @k00b 13 Feb bitcoin_Mining
the CBP has broadened the scope of its scrutiny to target MicroBT and Canaan ASICs as well, while also seizing Bitmain units for the first time since the CBP started taking action last fall.
Speaking to the increased scope of detainment, Synteq Digital cofounder and CEO Taras Kulyk said that “virtually every Asian ASIC manufacturer is being impacted by customs clearance issues.”
This has got to be frustrating. It sounds like there's no explicit law forbidding the import but they're detained because of their likeness to other Chinese chips.
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @freetx 13 Feb
The letter states that the miners were “seized and subject to forfeiture” according to U.S. legal code provision 19 USC 1595a(c)(2)(A). It specifically cites sections of the provision that pertain to unauthorized communications equipment, radio frequency equipment that causes interference, and equipment that is not FCC approved or compliant with the agency’s rules.
Subject to forfeiture? FCC communications?
Sounds like another agency needs to be DOGED into extinction?
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