Mined in America Act of 2026

Key Points

• The bill creates a voluntary "Mined in America" certification for Bitcoin mining facilities and pools that use hardware made in the U.S. or allied countries. Certified operations must stop buying equipment from adversary nations by 2027 and fully phase out all such hardware by 2030.
• Certified miners who sell their Bitcoin directly to the U.S. government for deposit into the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve would pay zero capital gains tax on those sales, creating a powerful financial incentive to participate in the program.
• The bill formally establishes a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile at the Treasury Department. Bitcoin in the reserve could not be sold unless a future law specifically allows it, locking the government into long-term Bitcoin holdings.
• The Treasury could stake non-Bitcoin digital assets it already owns to earn rewards, then use those rewards to buy more Bitcoin for the reserve, all without spending new taxpayer dollars.
• Certified mining operations become eligible for Department of Energy loan guarantees, smart grid investment grants, and Rural Energy for America Program funding, with a focus on grid-responsive computing that can reduce power use during peak demand.
• NIST would support the development of secure, energy-efficient crypto mining hardware, and the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership would help U.S. manufacturers retool to produce this equipment domestically.