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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Shiba Inu Launches Beta Version of DAO to Give Users More Authority Over Crypto Projects

The dogecoin rival is aiming to provide its users with more control over crypto projects and pairs on the ShibaSwap platform.

Shiba inu (Melody Less/Unsplash)

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Miner Bitfarms Raises $100M Bitcoin-Backed Loan From Galaxy Digital

The miner has already made an initial $60 million drawdown with a six-month term at an interest rate of 10.75%.

A crypto mining rig

Finance

Marathon Digital Named Top Mining Pick Heading Into 2022 by DA Davidson

The miner’s stock has compelling upside after a recent sell-off among the group, the investment bank said.

Marathon Digital to Buy $121M of Mining Machines

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Newly Minted Bitcoin Miner Gem Mining Reaches Hashrate of 1.25 EH/s

Gem’s mining power now accounts for about 1% of the Bitcoin network’s total.

Crypto mining machines. (lmstockwork/Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Miner Hive Sees More Bitcoin, Less Ether Mined in Third Quarter

The slowdown in ether mining is expected to be offset partially by the rally in the cryptocurrency’s price during the quarter ending Dec. 31.

Crypto mining rig

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Power Management Firm Lancium Signs $2.4B Data Center Development Deal

The construction of the data center, which will focus on bitcoin mining and other energy-intensive applications, will start in the first quarter of 2022.

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

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8 Trends That Will Shape Bitcoin Mining in 2022

CoinDesk’s first ever year-end survey of crypto miners reveals a competitive but mature business with potential for merger activity to accelerate.

What's in store for crypto mining in 2022? (Grafissimo/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Former Marine and South Carolina Politician Raises $200M to Start Bitcoin Mining Company

Former gubernatorial candidate John Warren started Gem Mining earlier this year with four other partners.

Gem Mining CEO John Warren (Gem Mining)

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Gwyneth Paltrow-Backed Bitcoin Miner TeraWulf Plunges in Trading Debut

The environmentally sustainable miner recently raised funds from the actress and several other notable stars and entrepreneurs.

Bloomberg/Contributor/Getty

Finance

Crypto Miners Extend Slump as Bitcoin Price Falls to Lowest Point Since October

Some miners have lost almost 50% of their market capitalization since bitcoin reached its all-time high in November.

Network cables connected to bitcoin mining rigs (Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images)