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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Finance

Bitcoin Miners Are Starting to Emerge From Brutal Crypto Winter

After several bankruptcies and fire sales, the rally in bitcoin’s price is providing some relief for the miners, although they may not be completely out of the woods yet.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Core Scientific Bankruptcy Approves $70M Financing Deal From B. Riley

The judge also indicated he would allow stockholders to form an official committee in the bankruptcy.

Core Scientific facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Consensus Magazine

ReFi for the People: How Crypto Can Help Local Communities Help Their Ecosystems

A hyper-localized breed of regenerative finance hopes to use crypto not only to improve the world’s carbon footprint but improve lives’ of local communities.

A view of the Suriname river from the Blauwe Berg. The small nation north of Brazil is home to a couple of projects trying to use blockchain to preserve the forest. (-JvL-/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Montana Senate Passes Bill Protecting Crypto Miners

The legislation will likely upend a Missoula county zoning law that was one of the first in the U.S. to target the mining industry.

A Cipher mining bitcoin farm. (Cipher Mining)

Finance

Bitcoin Mining Consulting Firm Sabre56 Raises $35M to Build 150MW of Hosting Sites

The company is moving into the hosting business and says it already has a "waiting list" of clients.

A Sabre56 bitcoin mining facility. (Sabre56)

Consensus Magazine

Crypto and Bitcoin Miners Rebrand and Diversify to Survive: A Look at Their New Strategies

Some of these new business lines are more profitable than bitcoin mining – but not all.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain Posts Q3 Loss as Ethereum Merge Cuts Revenue, Mining Margin

The Canadian miner is launching its high-performance computing cloud business, which is 25 times more profitable than mining.

Crypto mining stocks have lost roughly half of their value in the past month. (Sandali Handagama for CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitmain Partner BitFuFu Starts Marketplace for Crypto Mining Rig Coupons

The discount coupons issued last year haven't been used because miners don't have the cash to spend on new equipment.

Crypto mining rigs (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Miner Core Scientific Paid More Than $1M to CEO-Affiliated Jet Company For Employees

The world's largest bitcoin miner by computing power made its last payment to the firm in October 2022.

Core Scientific facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Policy

Compute North’s Reorganization Plan Approved by Bankruptcy Judge

The hosting firm, one of North America’s largest, settled $250 million in secured debt and came to terms with about 11 companies.

Bitcoin Corporate Treasury Adoption (Shutterstock)