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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Kava Onboards Sushi With $14M in Developer Incentive Funding

The integration will allow Sushi users and developers to have seamless access to the entire $300 billion market value of Ethereum and Cosmos from a single network.

A kava farm (Scot NElson/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons)

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Nvidia’s Crypto Mining Chip Revenue Now ‘Nominal’ Following Months of Decline

A drop in crypto mining chip sales dragged down the chipmaker’s OEM business unit year-over-year.

A bitcoin mining facility. (Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain Emerged Unscathed From Its UST Stake

The company said it was able to sell its minimal UST stake for around 93 cents per token before the price completely collapsed.

Fans enter the Terra Club dining area between innings. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Celsius Network Files Draft S-1 Form to Take Its Mining Unit Public

The filing is expected to become effective after the SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions.

The Celsius both at Bitcoin Miami 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Mawson to Develop New Bitcoin Mining Site in Texas

The facility could accommodate up to 4 EH/s of mining power.

Riot Blockchain is acquiring a bitcoin mining center in Texas.

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Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Lowers Hashrate Outlook to 6 EH/s This Year

The miner is still assessing other opportunities to expand its capacity to as much as 8 EH/s by the end of the year.

Bitfarms' mining facility in Quebec, Bitfarms (Aoyon Ashraf for CoinDesk)

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CleanSpark, Hut 8 Stocks Lead Bitcoin Miner Rally as Markets Bounce Back

Those miners with larger operations and lower costs are winning favor with investors amid volatile market conditions.

Bitcoin miners on the rise on Friday. (Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty images)

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Core Scientific Cites Crypto Market Turmoil in Lowering Its Growth Outlook

The miner said it has also received overtures about potential M&A deals as some other miners struggle to finance their growth.

Core Scientific CEO Mike Levitt (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Core Scientific Cuts Hashrate Outlook, Q1 Revenue Misses Estimates

Despite the shortfalls, the bitcoin miner's shares were up in after-hours trading.

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

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Soluna Receives $35M From Spring Lane to Build Green Data Centers

The money brings Soluna’s total funding for data centers co-located with renewable energy assets to $100 million.

Bitcoin mining can soak up renewable energy that is hard to transmit or consume locally, giving a leg up to energy producers. (Yunha)