Michael Ho is an entrepreneur and executive in the digital asset mining industry who serves as the Chief Executive Officer of American Bitcoin. ^{[7] [8]} He is also the co-founder of US Bitcoin Corp, where he previously held the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair, and has served as Executive Chairman of US Bitcoin Corp and Chief Strategy Officer of Hut 8 Corp. ^{[1] [2]}

Education

Ho attended Simon Fraser University, where he pursued a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA). His studies focused on general business and commerce. ^{[2] [3]}

Career

Ho began his entrepreneurial career in 2007 as the founder of AccountsDen, an e-commerce store specializing in virtual gaming goods. In 2011, he founded Sprouthire, a job search platform. The following year, from 2012 to 2015, he owned Vancouver Motorcars Ltd., an automotive dealership that focused on high-line vehicle sales. In 2015, he became the Managing Director of MKH International Ltd. He also co-founded SurelyWell, a hand sanitizer company, in 2019, which served as a way to later work with Bitcoin.

Ho entered the digital asset space in 2014 when he first began mining cryptocurrencies. In 2017, he established businesses dedicated to procuring, managing, and selling turnkey digital asset mining facilities to institutional clients, some of which have become large public mining companies. In 2020, he co-founded US Bitcoin Corp (US BTC), serving as its Chief Executive Officer and Board Chair. The company focused on building and operating data centers for the bitcoin network with an emphasis on using low-carbon energy sources.

Following his tenure at US BTC, Ho joined Hut 8 Corp as its Chief Strategy Officer. His professional expertise includes strategic mergers and acquisitions, business transformation, structured financing, and international trade. ^{[1] [2] [5] [6]}

American Bitcoin

As Chief Strategy Officer at Hut 8 Corp, Ho was involved in a major business venture with Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. After a series of meetings that began in late 2024, Hut 8 and the Trumps formed American Bitcoin, which launched on April 1, 2025. Hut 8 owns 80% of the new company, with the remaining 20% held by the Trump brothers and other shareholders. Ho became the Chief Executive Officer of the new venture. The company, which inherited mining facilities from Hut 8 in New York, Alberta, and Texas, announced plans to go public through a merger with Gryphon Digital Mining. Following the merger, Ho is slated to be one of five directors on the board of the new public entity. ^{[7] [4]}

In a September 2025 interview on "Bloomberg Markets," Ho addressed national security concerns regarding American Bitcoin's use of hardware from Bitmain, a China-based manufacturer of mining equipment. He stated that he did not believe using the equipment posed a risk, arguing that the ASIC chips are proven to be programmed for the single purpose of computations on the SHA-256 algorithm. Ho emphasized that American Bitcoin's strategy is to use the most efficient and cost-effective hardware to produce Bitcoin, and that Bitmain's latest 3-nanometer chips were the most technologically advanced and competitive, even with U.S. tariffs applied. ^[9]