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Pledged BTC balance June 30 2026

Company: Riot

Subject kind
financing
Statement date
2026-08-22
Promised amount
5821.0 BTC
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Pledged BTC balance was 5,821 as of June 30, 2026

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: “By June 30, the balance was back at 5,821 BTC.”

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: “By June 30, the balance was back at 5,821 BTC.”

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