Eliza Gkritsi

Eliza Gkritsi is a CoinDesk contributor focused on the intersection of crypto and AI, having previously covered mining for two years. She previously worked at TechNode in Shanghai and has graduated from the London School of Economics, Fudan University, and the University of York. She owns 25 WLD. She tweets as @egreechee.

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Core Scientific Bankruptcy Judge Approves Transfer of Over $20M of Equipment to Its Exclusive Energy Negotiator

Core Scientific had stopped paying Priority Power Management in May 2022.

Core Scientific's Marble facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Finance

Crypto Winter Ends Era of Bitcoin Mining ‘HODLers’

Bitcoin miners are no longer able or willing to hold onto all of their mined digital assets indefinitely as a slump in prices is eating into their margins.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Gibraltar's Xapo Bank Enables GBP Payments, Prepares USDC Option Amid U.S. Crypto Banking Crisis

The retail-focused bank will be allowing users to make GBP payments directly to and from their U.K. accounts or wallets.

Gibraltar's iconic rock (Michal Morzak/Unsplash)

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Banking Crisis in U.S. Likely to Push Crypto Firms Offshore

Switzerland, Lichtenstein and island jurisdictions are among the potential benefactors of the trend.

Author and investor Tatiana Koffman is just one among many who have turned to bitcoin amid a plague of bank runs – possibly the beginning of what she has described as the "Great Reset." (K8/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Stocks Surge Amid Banking Meltdown

Mining equities were up about 11% on average on Monday alongside big gains for bitcoin.

Bitcoin miners (Shutterstock)

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Bitcoin Miner Marathon Says It Still Has Access to $142M at Signature Bank

Marathon terminated a credit facility with Silvergate last week.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Talks Operational Issues and U.S. Bitcoin Corp. Merger in Earnings Call

Management spoke to investors on Thursday morning following release of the company's fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 results.

A Hut 8 mining facility (hut8.io)

Finance

Canadian Crypto Miner Pow.re Lands 100 MW Contract in Paraguay

The site is built in the Yguazu region, near the giant Itaipu dam.

The Itaipu dam (Jonas de Carvalho/Flickr)

Finance

Crypto Mining Rig Maker Canaan's Q4 Revenue Sunk 82% to $56.8M

The firm reported Q4 net loss per ADS of 38 cents compared to $1 for the same period in 2021.

Nangeng Zhang, CEO of Canaan Creative (Nangeng Zhang)

Finance

TeraWulf Starts Nuclear-Powered Bitcoin Mining With Nearly 8,000 Rigs at Nautilus Facility

The miner also said it expects to reach 5.5 EH/s of computing power across its two sites by early in the second quarter.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)