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 Mining Rig Maker Canaan Surges After Strong Results and Guidance

The combination of an expanding customer base and higher average selling price drove the better-than-expected fourth quarter.

Canaan mining machine

Policy

Foundry Digital Joins Crypto Lobbying Group Blockchain Association

The digital asset mining and staking company joins as policymakers consider regulations for the crypto industry.

K street is the traditional home of political lobbyists in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)

Finance

Crypto Miner Hut 8 Teams Up With Enthusiast Gaming for Multi-Year Partnership

The deal will enable Hut 8 to reach Enthusiast Gaming’s 300 million-strong audience and provide data center hosting.

Gaming (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Finance

Marathon Digital’s Q4 Revenue Rises 17% From Q3, but Misses Estimates Slightly

Mined bitcoin in Q4 fell about 12% from the previous quarter, but rose more than 600% year-over-year.

Marathon Digital to Buy $121M of Mining Machines

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Mawson Signs 100MW Hosting and Debt Deal With Celsius Mining

Mawson will also receive a $20 million loan from Celsius in exchange for 3.85 million warrants in Mawson.

Bitcoin miners are attractive partners to build AI data centers: Bernstein. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Nvidia Hackers Are Selling Software to Bypass Ethereum Hashrate Limiter

The hacker group said it’s selling a customized driver that could help miners get around the software installed on Nvidia’s high-end gaming cards.

Nvidia Redesigns Graphics Cards to Limit Their Use in ETH Mining

Finance

AMC Theatres Will Accept DOGE and Shiba Inu via BitPay

AMC already allows bitcoin and ether, among other cryptocurrencies, to be used for payments.

(Donreál Lunkin/Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitfury Launches 28MW Canadian Mining Facility

Located in Sarnia, Ontario, the project can be expanded to as much as 200 megawatts.

Credit: Shutterstock

Finance

Lehman Brothers Bargain Hunter Bob Diamond Now Paying Up for Crypto

Diamond’s SPAC Concord is now valuing stablecoin issuer Circle at $9 billion, twice the initial valuation.

Concord Chairman Bob Diamond (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Layer 2

Questions Swirl Around NuMiner’s ‘Best in Class’ Bitcoin Mining Rig

Among other discrepancies, the chipmakers supposedly involved with NuMiner said they were unfamiliar with the project.

"Gold Rush Daze," 1939 (Warner Bros. Cartoons, public domain)