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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Finance

Greenidge Outperforms Peers as B. Riley Analyst Sees Higher Earnings Potential

The analyst raised the crypto miner’s 12-month price target to $82 from $78 and 2022 earnings estimates.

Greenidge Mining center

Finance

Institutional Investors Growing Curious on Crypto Mining but With ‘Plenty of Skepticism,’ Analyst Says

About 15% of Wall Street brokers covering the payments sector are taking bitcoin seriously now, according to a D.A. Davidson analyst.

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

Finance

AGM Receives Second Batch of Orders for ASIC Miners

The order from MinerVa builds on a previous deal for 30,000 units of ASIC crypto miners to Nowlit Solutions.

ASICs (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto Miner Stronghold Digital Soars in Trading Debut

The environmentally friendly bitcoin miner that’s using coal waste for energy opened 42% higher than its $19 IPO price.

A photo supplied by Stronghold

Finance

Hive Leads Crypto Mining Stocks Higher as Bitcoin Hits All-Time High

Shares of crypto miners continue to rally as bitcoin moves further into record territory.

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

Finance

OLB Group Surges After Starting Bitcoin Mining Operation

The company expects to have a total of 1,000 miners in operation at its newly installed data center by the end of 2021.

A crypto mining rig

Finance

How Riot Plans to Add Hashrate Without Adding Miners

The bitcoin mining firm claims immersion-cooled technology will add more hashrate by raising the productivity of its existing machines.

A close-up of one of Riot's mining rigs. (Riot Blockchain)

Finance

Atlas Taps Compute North to Expand ESG-Focused Bitcoin Mining

The Singapore-based miner plans to expand its hashrate to 3.7 EH/s through a power deal starting in the first quarter of 2022.

The ESG Debate of Bitcoin Mining

Finance

Argo Blockchain’s Texas Mining Facility Will Propel Shares Higher, Analysts Say

A slew of investment firms kicked off coverage, hitting the London-based cryptocurrency mining company with “buy” ratings.

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

Finance

Crypto Miners Are ‘Literally Printing Money,’ Says Wall Street Firm DA Davidson

The broker started research coverage of “top four” bitcoin mining stocks with a positive view on the industry for the near term.

Hut 8 plant