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Q1 2026 average mining cost per BTC

Company: Riot

Subject kind
product
Statement date
2026-08-17
Promised amount
44629.0 USD
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Riot's average mining cost per Bitcoin, excluding depreciation, was $44,629 in Q1 2026

Source (primary)

RIOT stock gains 4.7% as JPMorgan lifts target to $22 - Cryptonews.net (-, news_article)
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Quote: “Its average mining cost, excluding depreciation, rose to $44,629 per Bitcoin”

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://cryptonews.net/news/mining/33308679/) in full (8,787 characters, retrieved September 1, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.

Additional evidence

confirms RIOT stock gains 4.7% as JPMorgan lifts target to $22 - Cryptonews.net

Quote: “Its average mining cost, excluding depreciation, rose to $44,629 per Bitcoin”

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