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Deployed hashrate (Q1 2026)

Company: Riot

Subject kind
facility capacity
Statement date
2026-08-18
Promised amount
42.5 EH/s
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Riot's deployed hashrate reached 42.5 exahashes per second by Q1 end 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: “Riot's deployed hashrate reached 42.5 exahashes per second (EH/s) by Q1 end”

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: “Riot's deployed hashrate reached 42.5 exahashes per second (EH/s) by Q1 end”

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

Record of changes

August 31, 2026 — statedlater found incorrect
Automated extraction from the cited source. Recorded automatically from the cited source when it was published, then queued for evidence review.
September 1, 2026 — withdrawnlater found incorrect
Evidence review against the cited source. The source document discusses Riot's Bitcoin sales and treasury management in H1 2026, but contains no information about deployed hashrate or exahashes per second metrics.
September 2, 2026 — stated
Correction after re-verification. Re-verification found the cited source does support this claim. The earlier withdrawal was made in error and has been reversed. The attributed quote appears verbatim in the cited source (deterministic check).