Aoyon Ashraf

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's Head of Americas. 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 ADA, SOL, ATOM and some other altcoins that are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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Finance

Warren Targets 6 More Crypto Miners for Their Energy Use

The crypto miners welcomed the dialogue on the environmental issues of mining with the Massachusetts senator.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Finance

Miners Remain Unfazed by Crypto Sell-Off, Expect More M&A

While some miners may face difficulty raising equity or staying as profitable, many feel confident they can navigate the current downturn.

A bitcoin mining farm. (Marko Ahtisaari/Flickr)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Hits 2 EH/s to Join Ranks of Top North American Miners

The miner is now producing 10 bitcoins per day.

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

Finance

Luxor Starts Ethereum Mining Pool as Proof-of-Stake Shift Looms

Luxor also started an advocacy group for Ethereum to remain on the proof-of-work consensus mechanism.

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

Finance

Newly Public Core Scientific Leads Slump in Crypto Mining Stocks

The company's shares have fallen more than 20% since it went public via a SPAC merger on Thursday.

Core Scientific's mining facility in Calvert City, Ky. (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Witnesses Debate Crypto Mining's Efficiency in Congressional Hearing on Environment

Lawmaker questions ranged from basics on blockchain to queries about different energy sources.

Rep. Diana Degette (D-Co.) chaired Thursday's hearing on crypto's energy impact. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Policy

LIVE BLOG: Congressional Hearing Puts Crypto Energy Use in the Crosshairs

Follow along as CoinDesk reporters provide updates.

Solar farm in China (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finance

Intel, Block Supporting Mining a Positive for Bitcoin’s Price: Analyst

The moves will likely lead to increased mining efficiency and greater bitcoin adoption, which in turn should help boost the price of the cryptocurrency.

Intel

Finance

Crypto Miner Mawson Sees Hashrate Topping 1 EH/s by Month's End

The Australian miner is producing about 5.8 bitcoins per day.

Bitcoin Mining's Energy Consumption Debate

Finance

Crypto Miner Argo Diversifies Into Non-Mining Blockchain Business

The “Argo Labs” unit will be funded internally and focus on blockchain-related, non-mining projects.

(Yuichiro Chino via Getty Images)