Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Global Head of News and is responsible for all of the editorial content and strategies. 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 the University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH, BTC, and SOL that are above CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000. He also holds LINK, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

Aoyon Ashraf

Latest from Aoyon Ashraf


Finanzas

Crypto Mining Stocks Rally as Bitcoin Surges Past $44,000

Publicly traded miners large and small have rebounded in February in concert with bitcoin’s rise.

Marathon Digital to Buy $121M of Mining Machines

Mercados

Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF Approved for Nasdaq Listing

The fund will begin trading tomorrow under the ticker “WGMI" and has an expense ratio of 0.75%.

A bitcoin mining farm. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

Finanzas

Crypto Miner Merkle Among First to Get Bitmain’s Newest Liquid Cooling Mining Rigs

Merkle will receive 4,449 S19 Pro+ Hydro’s from Bitmain in May.

Inside Bitmain Technologies Ltd.'s Bitcoin Mine

Finanzas

Sphere 3D to Buy 60K NuMiner Machines for $1.7B

NuMiner says its NM440 miners have a hashrate of 440 terahash per second (TH/s), 122% greater than rival Bitmain’s newest machines.

Data Center Server Room Bitcoin Mining

Publicidad

Finanzas

Texas Crypto Miners Shuttering Operations as Winter Storm Approaches

Riot Blockchain is among the companies on storm watch and looking to help protect the state’s power grid.

Bitcoin miners in Texas are bracing for a severe winter storm. (Christine Kohler/Getty Images)

Finanzas

Greenidge Q4 Revenue Rises Even as the Number of Coins Mined Falls

The number of mined bitcoins fell 16% from the previous quarter while hashrate rose 17%.

Greenidge Generation's bitcoin mining facility.

Finanzas

Bitcoin Miner Greenidge’s NY Power Plant Permit Delayed: Report

The decision by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation will now come by the end of March.

Greenidge mining facility

Finanzas

Buterin to Use Returned $100M From SHIB Donation for COVID Projects Worldwide

CryptoRelief, the Indian COVID-19 fund that received the original donation, is returning the sum, which Buterin will use for “higher-risk higher-reward” projects.

Vitalik Buterin (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Publicidad

Finanzas

Jefferies Sees Nearly 160% Upside for Marathon Digital's Shares

The firm started coverage with a buy rating and 12-month price target of $51.

marathon

Finanzas

Warren Targets 6 More Crypto Miners for Their Energy Use

The crypto miners welcomed the dialogue on the environmental issues of mining with the Massachusetts senator.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)