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Year-over-year hashrate growth

Company: Riot

Subject kind
facility capacity
Statement date
2026-08-19
Promised amount
26.0 percent
Current status
stated

The claim, verbatim

Riot's deployed hashrate increased 26% from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026

Source (primary)

Riot Platforms Sold 9,665 Bitcoin in H1 2026 to Fund AI Pivot - Cryptonews.net (-, news_article)
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Quote: “a 26% increase from the same period in 2025”

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: “a 26% increase from the same period in 2025”

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