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

Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain Will Avoid Bankruptcy With $100M Bailout From Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital

Galaxy will buy Argo's Helios facility for $65 million and provide $35 million loan to help the miner amid restructuring.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz (Suzanne Cordiero/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Files for Bankruptcy, Expects Support From Some Debt Holders

The publicly traded miner expects support from some of the holders of its convertible notes in a restructuring deal.

Core Scientific facility in North Carolina. (Core Scientific)

Tech

Microsoft Bans Crypto Mining on Its Online Services Without Permission

Google has a similar policy in place and Amazon's AWS prohibits crypto mining during its 12-month free trial.

(Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Cuts 2023 Hashrate Outlook by Nearly 30%

The miner cited delays in building out a mining facility by one of its partners, Lancium.

CleanSpark's immersion cooling facility in Norcross, Georgia (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific's Lender Wants to Give Miner $72M to Avoid Bankruptcy

Investment bank B Riley said most of the struggling miner's issues are "self-imposed and can be corrected."

Core Scientific CEO Mike Levitt (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Expects to Recover Less Than Half Its Deposit From Bankrupt Compute North

In its monthly update the company also disclosed additions to its bitcoin stack and the payoff of some debt.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Riot Switches Mining Pool After Falling Short in November

The miner used Braiins mining pool, whose payout method caused the variance between Riot’s mining capacity and the amount produced, according to a person familiar.

(Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Finance

Full Transcript: NY Times' Interview With Sam Bankman-Fried

Bankman-Fried said during the interview he did not "knowingly commingle" customer funds.

Andrew Ross Sorkin speaks with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried during the New York Times DealBook Summit (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Finance

Jack Dorsey's TBD Reverses Plan to Trademark 'Web5' After Backlash

The move was meant to prevent confusion about the meaning of Web5 and deter misuse of the term.

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Genesis Global Capital Confirms Hiring Investment Bank Moelis, Talks With Potential Investors

The crypto lender also started talks with its largest creditors and borrowers, including Gemini and parent company DCG, to agree on a solution.

(Getty Images)