Bitcoin miners riot platform and cleanspark increased their crypto production in August, according to operational updates on Wednesday.
The Riot platforms undermined 477 BTC in August, against 322 BTC from one year to the next. Production represents an increase of 48% compared to August 2024. According to the company, it sold 450 BTC for a net product of $ 51.8 billion during the month, and now holds 19,309 BTC, an increase of 92.7% in 12 months.
Meanwhile, Cleanspark undermined 657 BTC in August, against 478 BTC in the same month in 2024. The leap reached an increase from one year to the other of 37.5%. The company sold 533.5 BTC for $ 60.7 million last month.
The company announced in April that it would start to sell BTC to become financially self -sufficient. Cleanspark now holds 12,827 BTC, an increase of 69.7% compared to the period.
The increase in production occurs despite a significant increase from one year to the other of the difficulty of extraction of bitcoin.
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BTC’s mining difficulty jumps in 2025
In the past 12 months, the difficulty of extraction of Bitcoin has increased by 44.9%, going to 129.7 Billions this year, against 89.5 billions in August 2024, according to Coinwarz data.
The mining difficulty of Bitcoin refers to the difficulty for minors to resolve the puzzles that confirm the transactions and add blocks to the Bitcoin blockchain. The difficulty moves with changes in the hashrate and the activity of minors, sometimes pushing minors to improve platforms, to extend data centers or to rethink their strategies.
Despite the sharp increase in mining difficulties, Riot and Cleanspark have reached a significantly higher average chopping rate from one year to the next.
Riot’s average operational hash rate increased to 31.4 eh / s in August 2025, against 14.5 eh / s in August 2024, a leap of 116.6% in the past year. The Cleanspark increased to 43.3 EH / S from 21.3 EH / S, which represents an increase of 103.3% during the period.
Some minors choose to walk from Bitcoin’s exploitation, exploring incremental sources of income. For example, HUT 8 is developing four new data centers in the United States for high performance IT, such as workloads for artificial intelligence.
Hive Digital Technologies and Australian Miner Iren have also diversified their activities. In February, Riot appointed an advisor with a pivot experience of Bitcoin extraction assets at AI.
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