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Q2 2026 average mining cost per coin

Company: Riot

Subject kind
product
Statement date
2026-08-19
Promised amount
49912.0 USD
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Riot's average Bitcoin mining cost was $49,912 per coin in Q2 2026 (excluding depreciation)

Source (primary)

Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot - Cryptonews.net (-, news_article)
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Quote: “at an average cost of $49,912 per coin, excluding depreciation”

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/33315699/) in full (5,740 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 - Cryptonews.net

Quote: “at an average cost of $49,912 per coin, excluding depreciation”

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