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Aoyon Ashraf

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Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Head of Americas. He spent almost a decade at Bloomberg covering equities, commodities and tech. Prior to that, he spent several years on the sellside, financing small-cap companies. Aoyon graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ADA, SOL, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Is Miner Concentration Once Again Jeopardizing Bitcoin? Not Exactly

The high percentage of hashrate now located in North America may look like China 2.0, but the reality is more complicated.

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The bitcoin mining industry is concentrating in the U.S. (Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

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Bitcoin Miner TeraWulf’s Stock Can Rally Almost 160%, Says Analyst

B. Riley initiated the environmentally sustainable miner’s stock with a buy rating and a 12-month price target of $24.

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ExxonMobil Running Pilot Project to Supply Flared Gas for Bitcoin Mining: Report

The oil giant is looking to make use of natural gas that would otherwise be wasted at sites around the world, according to Bloomberg.

Mar 24, 2022

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Riot Blockchain’s COO to Exit After One Year

Megan Brooks-Anderson was promoted to chief operating officer in April 2021.

Mar 23, 2022

A close-up of one of Riot's mining rigs. (Riot Blockchain)

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The Future of Mining Finance: Time to Get Creative

To finance mining rigs in a down market, firms will have to look beyond stock issuance. They may have to borrow against their machines or mined crypto or put themselves up for sale.

Mar 23, 2022

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Mining Industry Not That Worried by SEC’s Proposed New Climate Reporting Rules

Some of the requirements might be challenging for smaller publicly-traded miners to comply with, however.

Mar 23, 2022

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Why Do Old-Line Businesses Enter Crypto Mining? Simple: Fat Profits

Even though mining margins have shrunk since crypto prices corrected, for now they’re big enough to keep luring entrants from sectors like prepackaged food and anti-aging formulas.

Mar 23, 2022

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Bitmain Redux: Bitdeer and BitFuFu Are About to Test US Stock Market's Mining Appetite

China's two biggest cloud mining platforms plan to go public on the Nasdaq via SPAC deals this year, at a time when crypto and broader markets have pulled back from their peaks.

Mar 22, 2022

Jihan Wu, now chairman and founder of Bitdeer, in 2018 (Bloomberg/Getty Images)

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Pipe Introduces Alternative Financing Product for Bitcoin Miners

The trading platform worked with Compass Mining for several months before launching the product.

Mar 22, 2022

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Mawson's Q4 Revenue Rises 79% From Q3

The bitcoin miner boosts its hashrate estimate for next year by 10%.

Mar 21, 2022

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