Early into Donald Trump’s second term as US president, the CEO of energy infrastructure company Hut 8, Asher Genoot, and Hut 8 chief strategy officer Michael Ho shared thin-crust pizza with Trump’s son Eric at the Trump golf club in Jupiter, Florida. They talked for hours, says Genoot, and tabled a business venture that greatly interested Trump: a bitcoin mining alliance.
They first met through mutual friends in late 2024: Genoot says he’d shown Eric photos of their “beautiful, liquid cool data center” in Amarillo, Texas. Genoot says Eric was intrigued and told Genoot stories of growing up with his dad on construction sites. The pizza night invite evolved, per
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