Riot Platforms Is Quietly Spending Its Bitcoin — Here’s Why That Matters

Key Takeaways

• Bitcoin mining generated about 92% of Riot’s segment revenue in Q2 2025. By Q2 2026, that share had fallen to about 65%, as mining revenue dropped 19% year over year to $113.7 million.
• Riot has secured roughly $9.8 billion in contracted data center revenue with AMD and a leading frontier AI lab, which management estimates will generate about $520 million in average annual revenue once both projects are fully deployed in June 2028.
• Total debt has stayed broadly flat for five straight quarters while free cash flow remained negative. In the first half of 2026, Riot sold Bitcoin to help fund operations and the equity portion of its data-center build rather than raising new debt or common equity.

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Riot Platforms Stock Still Moves With Bitcoin. Its Revenue Increasingly Doesn’t

Riot Platforms (RIOT) rose 3.8% on September 21 as Bitcoin touched a seven-month high, moving in step with the rest of the crypto miners. The next morning, Bitcoin slipped from a near eight-month high, and Riot appeared again in Reuters’ list of crypto-linked stocks trading lower. By the September 25 close, RIOT sat at $23, down 2.04% on the day.