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 Miners’ February Production Fell on Shorter Month, Winter Storm

Mining power increased for most miners from the previous month as miners continue their growth plans.

A technician monitors cryptocurrency mining rigs at a Bitfarms facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.

Finance

Block’s Bitcoin Wallet Will Contain a Fingerprint Sensor for Transactions

The payment giant’s new wallet will also be powered by a rechargeable lithium polymer battery and USB-C port.

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VanEck Launches Crypto Mining ETF

The investment firm says miners are critical to the growth of digital assets.

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Finance

Bitcoin Mining Startup Blockmetrix Raises $43M in Series B Round

The company had previously raised $7 million that went into deploying more than 1,000 mining rigs.

Crypto mining machines (Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Crypto Miner Argo’s Monthly Sales, Bitcoin Output Fell on Higher Difficulty, Winter Storm

Argo Blockchain’s mining margin in February also narrowed from the previous month.

A bitcoin mining farm. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

Finance

BitNile Aims to Become a Top 10 North American Miner With 300MW Deal

The expansion of the company’s Michigan data center would bring BitNile’s annual mining capacity to about 19,600 bitcoin.

Data Center Server Room Bitcoin Mining

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Core Scientific Plans to Increase Hashrate to 42 EH/s by Year End

The miner said demand for its hosting capacity remains strong and continues to exceed available supply.

Core Scientific's mining facility in Calvert City, Ky. (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Hive to Buy Intel Mining Chip That Can Raise Hashrate by 95%

The crypto miner also signed a new 100MW power deal with Compute North in Texas.

BUSY: A recent surge in mining power may have overcome the difficulty rate. (Credit: Shutterstock)

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Bitcoin Miner Mawson Signs Second Hosting Deal in a Week

The new deal will bring the company’s total hosting co-location power capacity to 114MW, up from just 2MW at the end of 2021.

Bitcoin mining at the CryptoUniverse Farm, in Russia.

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Bitcoin Miner Digihost Aims to Triple Capitalization With $250M Share Offering

Shares are down 13% on news of the offering and drop in bitcoin's price.

A bitcoin mining farm. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)