Riot Platforms sold 1,818 Bitcoin in December 2025 for $161.6 million, averaging $88,870 per coin, the company confirmed Tuesday.
This move marks a strategic pivot from traditional Bitcoin mining to monetizing its power and data center infrastructure, including support for artificial intelligence workloads.
As of December 31, Riot held 18,005 Bitcoin, including 3,977 restricted coins, down from 19,368 at the end of November, while producing 460 Bitcoin during the month.
Restricted Bitcoin refers to BTC that the company owns but has pledged as collateral under debt facilities and keeps in a segregated custody account, according to filings.
The December report will be Riot’s final monthly production and operations update, as the company transitions to quarterly disclosures focused on overall Business performance, data center strategy, and Bitcoin mining.
Pivot From Mining To AI
In October, Riot said that Bitcoin mining was no longer the company’s end goal.
The firm announced plans to repurpose its power infrastructure for a proposed 1-gigawatt AI data center campus.
Data from Bitcointreasuries.net shows Riot ranks seventh among publicly listed companies by Bitcoin holdings.
Bitcoin Miners Attract AI Partnerships
Rising costs of mining Bitcoin following the April 2024 halving have prompted miners to seek additional revenue streams beyond BTC production.
Artificial intelligence computing has emerged as a key area of interest, leveraging miners’ energy-dense data centers and large-scale power infrastructure.
Google has become a major player, holding about 14% of TeraWulf shares after expanding a financial backstop tied to a 10-year colocation lease with Fluidstack for AI workloads.
The following month, Google acquired a 5.4% stake in Cipher Mining as part of a $3 billion, multi-year data center deal involving Fluidstack.
Meanwhile, IREN signed a five-year, $9.7 billion GPU cloud services agreement with Microsoft to host Nvidia GB300 GPUs.
The top Bitcoin miner by market capitalization also announced a $5.8 billion deal with Dell Technologies to acquire GPUs and related equipment for AI deployment.
MSTR, meanwhile, has been aggressively buying more Bitcoin, with Strategy remaining bullish despite bear market concerns.