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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Finanzen

Apollo Hires JPMorgan's Christine Moy to Lead Digital Assets Strategy

The investment giant will be looking to make investments between $50 million and $250 million in blockchain and Web 3.

Christine Moy, partner leading digital assets at Apollo Global Management (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Märkte

Argo Blockchain Shares Jump After Updated Hashrate Guidance

The stock rose the most since March after the miner said it expects its hashrate to reach 5.5 EH/s by year-end.

A crypto mining farm (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Technologie

GPUs Get Cheaper as Ethereum’s Switch to Proof-of-Stake Gets Closer

The network's planned switch to PoS has been pushing prices for graphics cards down.

An Asus graphics card. (Joseph Greve/Unsplash)

Richtlinien

BitRiver Calls OFAC Sanctions ‘Unfair’ Anti-Competitive Move to Benefit US Miners

The firm and 10 of its subsidiaries were added to OFAC's list of designated nationals subject to sanctions.

A BitRiver mining firm (Anna Baydakova for CoinDesk)

Finanzen

Coinbase in Talks to Acquire BtcTurk for About $3.2B: Report

The target is one of Turkey's oldest crypto exchanges.

(Engin Yapici/Unsplash)

Finanzen

Core Scientific Begins Reporting Daily Bitcoin Mining Production

The figure will be updated every day at 12:00 p.m. EST (16:00 UTC) on the mining company's home page in a bid to improve transparency.

Darin Feinstein, co-founder of Core Scientific, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, April 8, 2022. The Bitcoin 2022 four-day conference is touted by organizers as "the biggest Bitcoin event in the world." Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Technologie

Tornado Cash Adds Chainalysis Tool for Blocking OFAC-Sanctioned Wallets From Dapp

The blockade only applies to the Tornado Cash front end, not the underlying smart contract, one of the protocol's founders later tweeted.

Coin mixer Tornado Cash announced a nod toward compliance on Friday. (Espen Bierud/Unsplash)

Finanzen

South Korean Smart Contract Auditing Platform Sooho.io Raises $4.5M

The startup works with Samsung and LG.

Seoul, South Korea (Ciaran O'Brien/Unsplash)

Richtlinien

Chinese Banking Associations Target NFTs

As the market heats up, the tokens are increasingly under the microscope in China.

China's crypto crackdown put digital-asset traders on the defensive. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Technologie

Ethereum's First Mainnet Shadow Fork Goes Live as Move to PoS Continues

The shadow fork will stress test developers' assumptions on existing testnets and the mainnet.

Founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin during TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 (John Phillips/Creative Commons/CC2.0, modified by CoinDesk)