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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Finance

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Hits 2 EH/s to Join Ranks of Top North American Miners

The miner is now producing 10 bitcoins per day.

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

Finance

Newly Public Core Scientific Leads Slump in Crypto Mining Stocks

The company's shares have fallen more than 20% since it went public via a SPAC merger on Thursday.

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

Policy

Witnesses Debate Crypto Mining's Efficiency in Congressional Hearing on Environment

Lawmaker questions ranged from basics on blockchain to queries about different energy sources.

Rep. Diana Degette (D-Co.) chaired Thursday's hearing on crypto's energy impact. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

LIVE BLOG: Congressional Hearing Puts Crypto Energy Use in the Crosshairs

Follow along as CoinDesk reporters provide updates.

Solar farm in China (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Finance

Intel, Block Supporting Mining a Positive for Bitcoin’s Price: Analyst

The moves will likely lead to increased mining efficiency and greater bitcoin adoption, which in turn should help boost the price of the cryptocurrency.

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Finance

Crypto Miner Mawson Sees Hashrate Topping 1 EH/s by Month's End

The Australian miner is producing about 5.8 bitcoins per day.

Bitcoin Mining's Energy Consumption Debate

Finance

Crypto Miner Argo Diversifies Into Non-Mining Blockchain Business

The “Argo Labs” unit will be funded internally and focus on blockchain-related, non-mining projects.

(Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miners’ Margins Are Still ‘Quite Healthy’ Even After Recent Sell-Off: D.A. Davidson

The Wall Street investment bank says mining company shares were sold because of falling bitcoin prices and investors' sudden change in risk appetite.

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Finance

Bitmain Adds Liquid Cooling Technology to Its Latest Bitcoin Mining Rigs

Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd. will deliver 198 terahashes per second (TH/s) of computing power, a 41% increase from Bitmain’s previous model S19 XP.

(Besiki Kavtaradze/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

Finance

Pakistan’s Crime Agency to Ask Telecom Authority to Block Crypto Websites: Report

The State Bank of Pakistan has already submitted recommendations for regulating cryptocurrencies.

People are seen at a weekly Sunday bazaar in Bufferzone, an area of central Karachi of Sindh province in Pakistan