Fortitude surpasses 5 GSol/s of Zcash hashrate as expansion plans grow

Fortitude Mining Holdings has pushed its Zcash hashrate past 5.0 GSol/s, a milestone the company reached as of October 15, 2026. The goal is ambitious: Fortitude wants to cement its position as the largest vertically integrated Zcash mining platform. The jump came quickly. Earlier in October, the company’s hashrate sat at approximately 4.7 GSol/s. What 5 GSol/s actually means Zcash runs on an algorithm called Equihash, so its hashrate is measured in “solutions per second” rather than the hashes per second Bitcoin miners talk about. A GSol/s is one billion of those solutions every second. Fortitude’s slice of the Zcash pie is already substantial. In the first half of 2026, the company mined 72,696 ZEC, which works out to roughly 28% of network production over that period. The operation runs across seven US sites with over 60 MW of power capacity under contract. The Bitmain shopping spree In July 2026, the company placed an order for 9,000 Bitmain Antminer Z15 Pro miners. The price tag was about $31.5 million. Those machines are expected to add 7.56 GSol/s to Fortitude’s fleet. The company projects that the order will lift capacity by 145%, taking its total to approximately 12.8 GSol...