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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Stronghold Digital Outperforms Peers After DA Davidson Buy Rating

The investment bank initiated its coverage of the bitcoin mining company with a 12-month price target of $42.

Stronghold Digital Mining Raises $105M to Turn Waste Coal Into Bitcoin

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Marathon Receives SEC Subpoena Related to 2020 Hardin Data Center Agreement; Shares Tumble

The bitcoin miner’s shares plummeted 27% on Monday, significantly underperforming other crypto miners.

Bitcoin Climbs Above $60K After Report SEC Won’t Block Futures ETF

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Greenidge Generation Reports Record Revenue in Q3, Names New CFO

The bitcoin miner’s third-quarter revenue grew 484% year over year, and the company appointed Robert Loughran as its new chief financial officer.

Greenidge mining facility

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Bitfarms Doubles Hashrate to More Than 2 EH/s

Bitcoin miner Bitfarms has received and installed 1,500 S19j Pro miners so far in November.

Bitfarms facility in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada.  (CoinDesk archives)

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Marathon Digital to Raise $500M in Convertible Notes

The bitcoin miner will use the proceeds to buy bitcoin and bitcoin miners.

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

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Chinese Crypto Miner The9 Expands in US With Compute North Deal

The company also plans to add 14,000 miners with other hosting partners in countries including Canada.

Crypto mining machines

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Bitfarms Buys 24MW Crypto Mining Facility in Washington State for $26M

The bitcoin miner plans to run approximately 6,200 Bitmain S19j Pro miners in the new hydro-powered facility, with potential capacity of 620 PH/s mining power.

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

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Hut 8′s Revenue Rose Over 700% in Q3, Beating Analyst Estimates

The Canadian crypto miner beat third quarter revenue and earnings estimates and held about $342 million in bitcoin.

Hut 8 Luxor Ethereum mining (Bet Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus)

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Top Bitcoin Mining Pool Foundry Starts Digital Currency Staking Business

The new business will provide staking services to institutional investors for 20 blockchain networks, including Solana, Helium, The Graph and Horizen.

Foundry, based in Rochester, N.Y., provides services to crypto miners such as equipment financing and pooling.

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Marathon Digital Beats Q3 Earnings Estimate, but Misses on Revenue

The company mined 1,252 bitcoin in the third quarter, a 91% increase from the previous quarter.

Marathon Digital to Buy $121M of Mining Machines