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Additional BTC pledged February 2026

Company: Riot

Subject kind
financing
Statement date
2026-08-22
Promised amount
1825.0 BTC
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

February 2026 decline required additional 1,825 BTC to be pledged, bringing total to 5,802 BTC

Source (primary)

Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC - CryptoSlate (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Bitcoin then fell far enough that the agreement required another 1,825 BTC, taking the collateral balance to 5,802 in February.”

How we checked this

Attempted on September 14, 2026. We could not read enough of the cited source to check this claim.

The verification run did not return a result for this claim (claude -p exit 1: b'').

What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://cryptoslate.com/bitcoin-crash-forced-riot-to-pledge-1825-btc-but-this-huge-rally-may-now-free-1500-btc/) in full (23,282 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC - CryptoSlate

Quote: “Bitcoin then fell far enough that the agreement required another 1,825 BTC, taking the collateral balance to 5,802 in February.”

View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗Archive.org ↗