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 Marathon Digital’s Montana Operations Go Offline After Storm

The miner had about 30,000 miners in the facility, representing over 75% of the company’s active fleet.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk "First Mover" screenshot)

Finance

Luxor Launches Hosting Marketplace for Bitcoin Miners Amid Build-Out Delays

The marketplace will offer hosting clients in the U.S. and Canada, with miners able to have as little as one mining rig hosted by some providers.

Luxor Chief Product Officer Guzman Pintos, CEO Nick Hansen and VP of Business Development Alex Brammer (Luxor)

Finance

Coinbase Launches First Crypto Derivatives Product Aimed at Retail Traders

Coinbase Derivatives Exchange hopes to capitalize on a market that is $3 trillion in volume worldwide and provide hedging options for traders.

(Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Finance

Solar-Powered Bitcoin Miner Starts Operations Despite Difficult Market

Aspen Creek Digital will also host miners from Galaxy Digital at its new data center in western Colorado.

Primer centro de minado de ACDC alimentado por energía solar. (Aspen Creek Digital Corporation)

Finance

Consulting Giant KPMG Makes Its First Foray Into Metaverse

The move follows PwC Hong Kong, which bought some virtual real estate represented as a non-fungible token, in the metaverse.

KPMG-building-shutterstock_118068757

Finance

Voyager Digital Secures Loans From Alameda to Safeguard Its Assets

The loan will have $200 million cash/USDC-backed credit facility and 15,000 BTC.

Voyager CEO Steve Ehrlich (right) with Robert Dykes of Caspian at Consensus 2019.

Finance

Bitfarms Looks to Boost Liquidity With Sale of 1,500 Bitcoin, New Loan

The miner paid down a credit line from Galaxy Digital while inking new equipment financing from NYDIG.

Money (Sharon McCutcheon / Unsplash)

Finance

CleanSpark Takes Advantage of Bear Market to Acquire Mining Rig Contracts

The miner also partnered with TMGcore to expand its immersion-cooled bitcoin mining infrastructure.

A bitcoin mining facility in Georgia that uses 95% non-carbon energy (CleanSpark)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Mawson Exchanges Mining Rigs for Stake in Tasmanian Data Center

The move comes as more miners have begun using alternative sources of funds to support their expansion.

Mining rig

Finance

Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain Selling Ether to Pay for Intel Mining Rigs

The miner expects to have a bitcoin-equivalent hashrate of 6.2 exahash per second (EH/s) in the next 12 months.

Equipos de minería para bitcoin. (Sandali Handagama)