Fortitude Agrees to $31.5M Antminer Deal to Double Its Zcash Mining Capacity

TL;DR

• Fortitude agreed to buy 9,000 Antminer Z15 Pro machines for $31.5 million, with shipments scheduled for October and November across seven U.S. mining sites.
• The order should add 7.56 GSol/s and raise disclosed Zcash mining capacity by 145%, potentially giving Fortitude more than half of current network hashrate.
• Fortitude mined 72,696 ZEC in the first half of 2026 and is expanding before a proposed Nasdaq listing through its HeartSciences merger.

Fortitude has agreed to buy 9,000 Bitmain Antminer Z15 Pro machines for roughly $31.5 million, a purchase designed to more than double its disclosed Zcash mining capacity. Bitmain is expected to ship 3,000 units in October and another 6,000 in November. The order turns Fortitude’s Zcash strategy from aggressive expansion into a potential challenge to the network’s existing balance. The new Equihash ASIC miners are expected to add 7.56 GSol/s, increasing the company’s capacity by 145% once installation and activation are successfully completed across its contracted sites throughout the planned fourth quarter deployment period.

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