Bitcoin and Cleanspark riot platforms strengthened their crypto production in August, according to operating updates on Wednesday.
Riot platform Mined 477 BTC in August, from 322 BTC year-year. The output represents a 48% increase compared to August 2024. According to the company, it sells 450 BTC for a net proceeds of $ 51.8 billion to the month, and is now holding 19,309 BTC, an increase of 92.7% to 12 months.
Meanwhile, cleanspark Mined 657 BTC in August, from 478 BTC in the same month in 2024. The jump costs a year-to-year increase of 37.5%. The company sold 533.5 BTC for $ 60.7 million last month.
The company announced this April Start selling BTC to be financially self enough. Cleanspark now holds 12,827 BTC, a 69.7% increase in period.
The increase in output has come across a significant increase of year in the difficulty of mining bitcoin.
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BTC mining difficulty jumped in 2025
In the past 12 months, Bitcoin mining difficulty has advanced 44.9%, rising to 129.7 trillion this year from 89.5 trillion in August 2024, Coinwarz data Shut up.
The difficulty of mining in bitcoin refers to how challenging it is for miners to solve puzzles that prove the transactions and add blocks to the bitcoin blockchain. Poverty changes to changes in hashrate and miners activity, sometimes pushing miners to upgrade rigs, expand data centers or re -imagine their techniques.
Despite climbing mining poverty, both riots and cleansparks have reached a higher average average year-to-year hash rate.
The average riot hash rate rose to 31.4 eh/s in August 2025 compared to 14.5 eh/s in August 2024, a 116.6% jumped last year. Cleanspark rose to 43.3 eh/s from 21.3 eh/s, representing an increase of 103.3% during the season.
Some miners prefer to bbranch from Bitcoin mining, exploring increasing income sources. For example, cube 8 is forming four new data centers in the United States For high-performance computing, such as artificial intelligence workloads.
Hive Digital Technologies and Australian Miner Iren have also varying with their businesses. In February, chaos assigned a counselor with experience in pivoting bitcoin mining assets in AI.
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