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Bitcoin treasury (Q1 end 2026)

Company: Riot

Subject kind
financing
Statement date
2026-08-18
Promised amount
15680.0 BTC
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Riot held approximately 15,680 BTC at the start of Q2 2026

Source (primary)

Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot - Bitcoin News (-, news_article)
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Quote: “down from roughly 15,680 BTC at the start of the quarter”

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://news.bitcoin.com/mining/riot-platforms-sold-8078-bitcoin-h1-2026-ai-pivot/) in full (8,030 characters, retrieved August 31, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot - Bitcoin News

Quote: “down from roughly 15,680 BTC at the start of the quarter”

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