Popular crypto company dumps $162 million in Bitcoin

Riot Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: RIOT), a fashionable Bitcoin (BTC) mining company, announced connected Jan. 6 that it sold 1,818 BTC successful December 2025.

So far, it is the Castle Rock, Colorado-headquartered company's largest single-month Bitcoin sale.

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Riot presently operates Bitcoin mining facilities successful cardinal Texas and Kentucky, with engineering and fabrication capabilities successful Denver and Houston.

Bitcoin mining is the process of utilizing high-end computers to encrypt analyzable cryptographic functions truthful that a miner tin verify and adhd blocks containing BTC transactions to the blockchain.

In speech for securing the Bitcoin blockchain, miners person rewards successful the signifier of recently mined BTC.

But Bitcoin miners assertion the enterprise is nary longer rewarding due to the fact that of reduced rewards.

The hash terms is simply a cardinal metric that quantifies however overmuch a miner tin expect to gain from a circumstantial quantity of hashrate. It is simply a relation of network difficulty, Bitcoin’s price, artifact subsidy, and transaction fees.

As per the illustration above, the hashprice has drastically declined implicit the past 3 months. Riot's grounds merchantability of Bitcoin worth $161.6 cardinal past period is reflective of the slump successful the crypto marketplace during the period.

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The mean terms per BTC sold stood astatine $88,870 successful December 2025 against $96,560 successful November 2025.

However, the institution sold lone 383 BTC successful November 2025. So, the adjacent period saw a steep monthly leap of 375%.

As acold arsenic accumulation is concerned, Riot Platforms generated 460 Bitcoin past month, in opposition to lone 428 BTC successful November.

On average, the institution produced 14.8 BTC a time successful December 2025.

As per the statement, Riot holds 18,005 BTC, down 7% successful a month.

The RIOT banal was exchanging hands astatine $14.82 successful pre-market hours connected Jan. 7, down 1% successful a day.

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