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.

Aoyon Ashraf

Latest from Aoyon Ashraf


Finance

Crypto Miner Hut 8 Bucks Trend by ‘Hodling’ Its Mined Bitcoins

The miner also concluded its crypto lending program, bringing all of company bitcoin back into custody.

Hut 8 plant

Finance

Middle East Oil Producers Move Into Bitcoin Mining With Crusoe Energy Stakes

The U.S. startup – which uses flared natural gas to power bitcoin mining rigs – counts the sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi and Oman as investors.

Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller with Mulham Basheer Al Jarf, deputy president of OIA and chairman of Oman oil company OQ (Crusoe)

Finance

Market Rout Prompts Analyst to Slash Bitcoin Miners’ Price Targets by Average of 65%

BTIG’s analyst remains positive on the longer-term outlook for the miners, however, and is sticking with his buy ratings for the stocks.

Lower rates may be behind bitcoin's big move (© Eugene Mymrin)

Finance

Riot Blockchain Sells More Bitcoin, Trims Hashrate Guidance

It’s the miner’s third consecutive month of bitcoin sales.

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

Finance

Kevin O’Leary-Backed Bitcoin Miner to Locate HQ in North Dakota

Bitzero plans to invest about $400 million to $500 million to build 200 megawatts of data centers in the state.

CoinDesk placeholder image

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Blockchain Names Its Head of Corporate Operations as New CFO

Current CFO Jeff McGonegal will retire and move into a new role as senior advisor of the miner in mid-August.

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

Finance

Bear Market Could See Some Crypto Miners Turning to M&A for Survival

Companies that have already survived the previous down market and have enough capital and a sound business strategy will be able to survive this cycle.

(Greg Pease/Stone/Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miners Are Selling Off Their BTC Holdings to Cope With Market Headwinds

As the price of bitcoin falls, miners are cornered into powering off or selling their holdings.

Equipos de minería para bitcoin. (Sandali Handagama)

Finance

Kava Onboards Sushi With $14M in Developer Incentive Funding

The integration will allow Sushi users and developers to have seamless access to the entire $300 billion market value of Ethereum and Cosmos from a single network.

A kava farm (Scot NElson/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Nvidia’s Crypto Mining Chip Revenue Now ‘Nominal’ Following Months of Decline

A drop in crypto mining chip sales dragged down the chipmaker’s OEM business unit year-over-year.

A bitcoin mining facility. (Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)