Hassan Maishera
TL;DR
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Riot Platforms sold 1,818 bitcoin in December and 383 in November.
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These operations reduced the company’s BTC balance to 18,005 coins.
Riot Platforms Sold $200M Worth of Bitcoins in November and December
Riot Platforms (RIOT), a publicly listed bitcoin mining company that develops and operates large-scale data centers, announced that it sold Bitcoins worth $200 million in the last two months of 2025.
According to the company, it offloaded 1,818 BTC ($161.6 million) and 383 BTC ($37 million) in December. Thanks to this latest sales, the company’s Bitcoin balance by the end of last year stood at 18,005 BTC.
According to Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at VanEck, Riot Platforms could have sold off some of its Bitcoins to fund the company’s AI division. The amount sold, he noted, is “roughly the entire capex Riot has guided for the first 112 MW core/shell build at Corsicana, targeting completion in Q1 2027.
The analyst added that the AI trade and Bitcoin are increasingly linked, pointing out that miners have been one of the leading marginal sellers of BTC as they fund AI related capex. It could be one of many reasons for bitcoin's decline during 2025, Sigel added.
Bitcoin is currently trading above $92k, down 1% in the last 24 hours.
