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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Финансы

Crypto Services Firm Luxor to Offer Derivatives for Bitcoin Miners to Hedge Risk

The new product will be based on “hashprice,” a term coined by Luxor to refer to the revenue miners earn from a unit of hashrate.

El bear market afectó los precios de minería de bitcoin. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

Технологии

Bitcoin Mining Is About to Get Tougher With Difficulty Primed for Another Sharp Rise

Miners with higher cost and large debt load will be weeded out by the crypto winter, according to industry experts.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Финансы

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Invested $31.3M in Bankrupt Data Center Compute North

The miner also has about $50 million in security deposits and prepayment to Compute North for hosting Marathon’s bitcoin miners.

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

Финансы

Grayscale’s New Venture Aims to Capture Bear Market Opportunities in Bitcoin Mining

Digital asset mining and staking infrastructure firm Foundry,will manage the day-to-day operations of Grayscale’s new co-investment vehicle

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk archives)

Финансы

Bitcoin Miner Merkle Increases Hashrate by 900% in 8 Months

The miner currently has 140 megawatts of total computing power in its two facilities.

Crypto mining rigs (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Финансы

SWIFT Partners With Crypto Data Provider Chainlink on Cross-Chain Protocol in TradFi Play

Interest from institutional investors moving into crypto has been “undeniable,” according to SWIFT’s Strategy Director.

(Swift)

Финансы

Solar-Powered Bitcoin Miner Aspen Creek Raises $8M Despite Bear Market

Galaxy Digital and Polychain Capital led the Series A funding.

Solar panels and mining rig. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Финансы

Troubled Data Center Compute North Struggled With Crypto Winter. Then Its Relationship With a Major Lender Soured

The company was financed by Generate Capital, which seized the data-center operator’s assets.

Compass' Wolf Hollow site in Granbury, Texas (Compute North)

Финансы

Compute North Files for Bankruptcy as Crypto-Mining Data Center Owes up to $500M

The company's CEO stepped down earlier this month and its COO will serve as the president.

Compass' Wolf Hollow site in Granbury, Texas (Compute North)

Финансы

Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Merge Cut Global Energy Usage by 0.2%, One of Biggest Decarbonization Events Ever

Ethereum now spews out less carbon dioxide than a few hundred U.S. households, according to a report.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)