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Story: American Bitcoin President Prusak Exits for Giga Energy’s 6.

By Bruce Buterin

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Giga Energy's Power Infrastructure Bet. Houston-based Giga Energy is where Prusak lands, and the company's numbers are hard to ignore.

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What Prusak's Exit Means for American Bitcoin. For American Bitcoin, losing Prusak is a real shift.

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Matt Prusak is out. The president and interim CFO of American Bitcoin is leaving the Nasdaq-listed mining firm to join Giga Energy as chief business officer and interim CFO,…

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Prusak's time at American Bitcoin wasn't quiet. He led the company's bitcoin accumulation strategy — the whole push to grow hashrate and increase BTC holdings per share that made…

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Houston-based Giga Energy is where Prusak lands, and the company's numbers are hard to ignore. It claims to have delivered more than 6.

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And that's kind of the whole story here. Prusak spent his career building expertise around power, land, and computational scale inside a bitcoin mining company.

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The broader pull toward energy infrastructure has been building for a while across the crypto mining world.

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For American Bitcoin, losing Prusak is a real shift. He was the guy steering the accumulation strategy — the approach that defined how the company differentiated itself from pure…

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More context: Trump Media Dumps 2,628 Bitcoin to Crypto.com, Sits on 4,261 BTC Worth $270M

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American Bitcoin's position is still notable. Hut 8's backing gives it resources, and the Eric Trump association kept it front-of-mind for a certain segment of the market.

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Giga Energy, for its part, seems to be moving fast. Developing 500-plus megawatts of AI-ready capacity while managing an existing 6.

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Prusak's background at American Bitcoin probably looks pretty good from Giga Energy's side of the table.

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The executive shuffle also fits a pattern that's been showing up across the industry — people who built their careers in digital assets are now getting recruited hard by energy…

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See also: Bithumb Eyes 2028 Stock Listing After 620,000 Bitcoin Crediting Blunder

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Prusak starts August 4. Giga Energy gets a president-level operator with a mining background. American Bitcoin looks for its next move.

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