Aoyon Ashraf

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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Finance

Core Scientific to Build 300MW Blockchain Data Center in Texas

The new data center will increase Core’s total power capacity to more than 800MW.

(Chris McLoughlin/Moment/Getty Images)

Markets

Crypto Miners Hoarding Bitcoins as Price Surges Above $55K

Riot Blockchain, Marathon Digital and Hut 8 have all been “hodling” the bitcoin they’ve mined in September.

Inside Bitmain Technologies Ltd.'s Bitcoin Mine

Finance

Crypto Miners Marathon Digital, Hut 8 Rally as Bitcoin Tops $50K

The Bitcoin blockchain’s hashrate has increased, and so has mining difficulty, but investors are betting the largest cryptocurrency’s recent price gains might translate to profit growth.

An Antminer bitcoin mining machine pictured in 2018. (Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)