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.

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Bitcoin Miner Riot Switches Mining Pool After Falling Short in November

The miner used Braiins mining pool, whose payout method caused the variance between Riot’s mining capacity and the amount produced, according to a person familiar.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

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Full Transcript: NY Times' Interview With Sam Bankman-Fried

Bankman-Fried said during the interview he did not "knowingly commingle" customer funds.

Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried during the New York Times DealBook Summit (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Jack Dorsey's TBD Reverses Plan to Trademark 'Web5' After Backlash

The move was meant to prevent confusion about the meaning of Web5 and deter misuse of the term.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

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Genesis Global Capital Confirms Hiring Investment Bank Moelis, Talks With Potential Investors

The crypto lender also started talks with its largest creditors and borrowers, including Gemini and parent company DCG, to agree on a solution.

(Getty Images)

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Crypto Mining and Staking Firm Foundry Buys Some of Troubled Bitcoin Miner Compute North's Assets

Foundry will buy two mining facilities and has an option to acquire a third site that is under development.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

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Genesis Global Capital Has Hired Investment Bank Moelis to Explore Options Including Bankruptcy: New York Times

Separately, the CEO of Genesis' parent company disclosed that it had a roughly $575 million liability to Genesis.

(Genesis Trading, modificado por CoinDesk)

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Pension Giant Ontario Teachers' Plans to Write Off All $95M Invested in Crypto Exchange FTX

The investment in the now-bankrupt crypto exchange represented less than 0.05% of the fund's total net assets.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

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Startup Arkon Energy Raises $28M to Further Expand Into Bitcoin Mining

The Australian company also bought Hydrokraft AS, a renewable energy-based data center in Norway with up to 60MW of power capacity.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

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Online Investing Platform BnkToTheFuture Drops Plan to Acquire Crypto Lender Salt Lending Due to FTX Exposure

Salt Lending said it had halted all deposits and withdrawals on its platform.

Obra de IA sobre el colapso. (DALL-E/CoinDesk)