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Riot Platforms is a publicly traded Bitcoin mining company operating large-scale mining facilities, with growing ventures into data-center hosting.
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Riot Platforms repaid its $200 million Coinbase Credit loan early, freeing 5,821 bitcoin, about 51% of its holdings, from collateral. Skipping seven months of 6.15% interest saves about $7 million and leaves its bitcoin unpledged while it expands data centers for AI tenants.
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Neither Anthropic nor Lambda has confirmed the agreement, and the two published accounts of it disagree on who holds the Texas lease. That is the visibility available to anyone planning capacity or prices around Claude.
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Anthropic is looking for as much as $100bn at a valuation near $2 trillion, and sources cited by Reuters say Nvidia, one of the suppliers it buys compute from, is weighing up to $10bn of that offering. The talks are private and the terms can change.
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The renamed GCPU tracks an index of high-performance computing firms, half of them GPU cloud operators and half converts from mining, on Grayscale's view that grid-connected capacity stays scarce for years.
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Cloture failed with 49 of the 60 votes needed. The two-agency perimeter the industry spent hundreds of millions to buy now falls to whatever the SEC and CFTC write on their own. Atkins still wants a statute.
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The Senate left the Clarity Act 11 votes short of the 60 needed on Tuesday. Bitcoin fell 4.5%, while Coinbase and Circle, the two firms that would have gained a primary regulator, fell 10.10% and 11.4%.
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The Z15 Pro earns roughly four times the best Bitcoin rig per megawatt-hour, but Zcash issues about 43,800 coins a month however much electricity arrives, and hashrate is growing faster than the price.
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Revenue per petahash rose almost exactly in step with the coin in August, so the miners' equity gap says more about how they are funding AI build-outs than about the margin on a mined bitcoin. Luxor's forward curve offers no relief before February.
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Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund went from $5.52bn at the end of 2025 to $13.67bn in ex-miners and power by March, against roughly $7.46bn of puts on semiconductors, which prices interconnect queues above silicon.
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The company that vowed never to sell has taken $432.5 million out of its own reserve since May, and the dollars now sit in two accounts, one ring-fenced for dividends and interest, the other still free to buy bitcoin.
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Abbott's pause stops roughly 1,800 grid applications seeking nearly 474 GW. The load-bearing number is not the gigawatts but the under-10 percent of operators who answered the PUC's data request.
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A source counter records how much an agent fetched, not how many independent claims it found. One pasted audit was enough to show the difference.
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The listed cohort's realized hashrate fell 13.4 percent in six months against a 10.6 percent network decline. Two of its members now earn most of their revenue from something other than mining.
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