Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. 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 University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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CoinList Aims to Reduce Miners’ Capital Costs With Low Collateral Filecoin Loans
The new lending service will require miners to put up as little as 10% collateral of the total loan value, helping them expand more quickly.
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Valkyrie has filed for a bitcoin futures ETF.
Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF Managers Bullish on Green Firms as Fund Begins Trading
The digital asset manager expects miners using renewable energy will be the ultimate winners in the space.
Valkyrie has filed for a bitcoin futures ETF.
Signage for Google Cloud is displayed at the Google Inc. booth during the SoftBank World 2019 event in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, July 18, 2019. The founders of Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Grab, indoor farming startup Plenty, Indian hotel chain OYO Rooms and payments service Paytm took the stage at an annual SoftBank conference to explain how artificial intelligence helps them stay on top in their respective fields. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Google Cloud Adds Crypto Mining Malware Threat Detection Service
The company's new Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) will be able to identify threats from coin mining, data exfiltration and ransomware.
Signage for Google Cloud is displayed at the Google Inc. booth during the SoftBank World 2019 event in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, July 18, 2019. The founders of Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant Grab, indoor farming startup Plenty, Indian hotel chain OYO Rooms and payments service Paytm took the stage at an annual SoftBank conference to explain how artificial intelligence helps them stay on top in their respective fields. Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Marathon Digital to Buy $121M of Mining Machines
Crypto Mining Stocks Rally as Bitcoin Surges Past $44,000
Publicly traded miners large and small have rebounded in February in concert with bitcoin’s rise.
Marathon Digital to Buy $121M of Mining Machines
A bitcoin mining farm (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)
Valkyrie Bitcoin Miners ETF Approved for Nasdaq Listing
The fund will begin trading tomorrow under the ticker “WGMI" and has an expense ratio of 0.75%.
A bitcoin mining farm (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)
Bitmain Mining Machines (Getty Images)
Crypto Miner Merkle Among First to Get Bitmain’s Newest Liquid Cooling Mining Rigs
Merkle will receive 4,449 S19 Pro+ Hydro’s from Bitmain in May.
Bitmain Mining Machines (Getty Images)
Data Center Server Room Bitcoin Mining
Sphere 3D to Buy 60K NuMiner Machines for $1.7B
NuMiner says its NM440 miners have a hashrate of 440 terahash per second (TH/s), 122% greater than rival Bitmain’s newest machines.
Data Center Server Room Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin miners in Texas are bracing for a severe winter storm. (Christine Kohler/Getty Images)
Texas Crypto Miners Shuttering Operations as Winter Storm Approaches
Riot Blockchain is among the companies on storm watch and looking to help protect the state’s power grid.
Bitcoin miners in Texas are bracing for a severe winter storm. (Christine Kohler/Getty Images)
Greenidge Generation's bitcoin mining facility.
Greenidge Q4 Revenue Rises Even as the Number of Coins Mined Falls
The number of mined bitcoins fell 16% from the previous quarter while hashrate rose 17%.
Greenidge Generation's bitcoin mining facility.
Greenidge mining facility (Caleb Parker)
Bitcoin Miner Greenidge’s NY Power Plant Permit Delayed: Report
The decision by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation will now come by the end of March.
Greenidge mining facility (Caleb Parker)