Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. 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 ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific's Lender Wants to Give Miner $72M to Avoid Bankruptcy

Investment bank B Riley said most of the struggling miner's issues are "self-imposed and can be corrected."

Core Scientific CEO Mike Levitt (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Expects to Recover Less Than Half Its Deposit From Bankrupt Compute North

In its monthly update the company also disclosed additions to its bitcoin stack and the payoff of some debt.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Switches Mining Pool After Falling Short in November

The miner used Braiins mining pool, whose payout method caused the variance between Riot’s mining capacity and the amount produced, according to a person familiar.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

Full Transcript: NY Times' Interview With Sam Bankman-Fried

Bankman-Fried said during the interview he did not "knowingly commingle" customer funds.

Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried during the New York Times DealBook Summit (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Finance

Jack Dorsey's TBD Reverses Plan to Trademark 'Web5' After Backlash

The move was meant to prevent confusion about the meaning of Web5 and deter misuse of the term.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Genesis Global Capital Confirms Hiring Investment Bank Moelis, Talks With Potential Investors

The crypto lender also started talks with its largest creditors and borrowers, including Gemini and parent company DCG, to agree on a solution.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Mining and Staking Firm Foundry Buys Some of Troubled Bitcoin Miner Compute North's Assets

Foundry will buy two mining facilities and has an option to acquire a third site that is under development.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Finance

Genesis Global Capital Has Hired Investment Bank Moelis to Explore Options Including Bankruptcy: New York Times

Separately, the CEO of Genesis' parent company disclosed that it had a roughly $575 million liability to Genesis.

(Genesis Trading, modificado por CoinDesk)

Finance

Pension Giant Ontario Teachers' Plans to Write Off All $95M Invested in Crypto Exchange FTX

The investment in the now-bankrupt crypto exchange represented less than 0.05% of the fund's total net assets.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Startup Arkon Energy Raises $28M to Further Expand Into Bitcoin Mining

The Australian company also bought Hydrokraft AS, a renewable energy-based data center in Norway with up to 60MW of power capacity.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)