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

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)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Cipher Looks to Sell Up to $250M in Stock

Investment bank H.C. Wainwright will be handling the transaction.

A Cipher mining bitcoin farm. (Cipher Mining)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy Signs Up to $100M Equity Deal With B. Riley

B. Riley previously signed a similar deal with Core Scientific in July, under which the miners have the rights but no obligations to sell the shares to the investment bank.

Riot Platforms’ acquisition of Block Mining makes sense, JPMorgan says. (Sandali Handagama)

Finance

Amid Market Rout, Crypto Miners Are Still Building

Crypto miners are still developing innovative data centers despite a souring market that has some miners struggling to survive.

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

Finance

Riot Blockchain Sues Northern Data Over Disclosures Related to Texas Bitcoin Mine Acquisition

This is the second lawsuit related to the giant Texas mine that Riot acquired last year.

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

Finance

Bitmain Discounts Bitcoin Mining Machines in an Already Depressed Market

Prices for bitcoin mining rigs have fallen by about 70% this year.

A Bitfarms mining facility in Washington State. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

DeFi Platform Maple Finance Aims to Help Struggling Bitcoin Miners With $300M Lending Pool

The DeFi platform is launching its first fully collateralized, industry-specific lending pool with up to 20% interest rate as bitcoin miners are finding it tough to raise capital.

A Bitfarms mining facility in Washington State. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Starts Production in Argentina, Increases Hashrate to 4.1 EH/s

The Canadian company plans to open a second mining site in the country, which has low electricity costs, next year.

Un empleado de Bitfarms supervisa hardware de minería de bitcoin. (Aoyon Ashraf/CoinDesk)

Finance

Ethereum Miners Are Quickly Dying Less Than 24 Hours After the Merge

Now-redundant, Ethereum miners are flocking to other proof-of-work tokens after the network switched to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and finding slim pickings.

Activist investor reported to have been pushing Riot to move into HPC. (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Environmental Groups to Spend Another $1M on Ads for Bitcoin Code Change After the Merge

The "Change the Code, Not the Climate" campaign is upping its efforts following Ethereum's switch to proof of stake.

(Anne Nygard/Unsplash)