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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Tech

Intel Launches Crypto Mining Initiative; Argo, Block to Get First Chips This Year

The chipmaking giant is ramping up its crypto mining offerings with a lineup of energy-efficient accelerators.

An old Intel motherboard (Unsplash)

Finance

Merkle Standard in Venture With Bitmain to Develop Data Centers

The bitcoin miner said the centers will be able to house over 150,000 mining machines.

Bitmain mining machines (Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Surges on Plan to Sell Legacy Energy Business

BTIG analyst Gregory Lewis sees higher growth with the company's new strategy.

CleanSpark CEO Zach Bradford (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

CleanSpark Mulling Strategic Options for Its Legacy Energy Business

The company wants to focus solely on bitcoin mining.

A bitcoin mining facility. (Christinne Muschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Iris Energy Reports Record Earnings, With Expansion on Track

The company said construction at its Mackenzie facility in British Columbia, Canada is ahead of schedule.

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

Finance

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.

Source: Blockware Solutions

Finance

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.

Finance

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

Finance

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

Markets

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)