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

Consulting Giant KPMG Makes Its First Foray Into Metaverse

The move follows PwC Hong Kong, which bought some virtual real estate represented as a non-fungible token, in the metaverse.

KPMG-building-shutterstock_118068757

Finance

Voyager Digital Secures Loans From Alameda to Safeguard Its Assets

The loan will have $200 million cash/USDC-backed credit facility and 15,000 BTC.

Voyager CEO Steve Ehrlich (right) with Robert Dykes of Caspian at Consensus 2019.

Finance

Bitfarms Looks to Boost Liquidity With Sale of 1,500 Bitcoin, New Loan

The miner paid down a credit line from Galaxy Digital while inking new equipment financing from NYDIG.

Money (Sharon McCutcheon / Unsplash)

Finance

CleanSpark Takes Advantage of Bear Market to Acquire Mining Rig Contracts

The miner also partnered with TMGcore to expand its immersion-cooled bitcoin mining infrastructure.

A bitcoin mining facility in Georgia that uses 95% non-carbon energy (CleanSpark)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Mawson Exchanges Mining Rigs for Stake in Tasmanian Data Center

The move comes as more miners have begun using alternative sources of funds to support their expansion.

Mining rig

Finance

Crypto Miner Hive Blockchain Selling Ether to Pay for Intel Mining Rigs

The miner expects to have a bitcoin-equivalent hashrate of 6.2 exahash per second (EH/s) in the next 12 months.

Equipos de minería para bitcoin. (Sandali Handagama)

Finance

Crypto Miner Hut 8 Bucks Trend by ‘Hodling’ Its Mined Bitcoins

The miner also concluded its crypto lending program, bringing all of company bitcoin back into custody.

Hut 8 plant

Finance

Mineras de bitcoin: caída del mercado provoca recorte de 65% para objetivos de precios de acciones

Sin embargo, un análisis de BTIG sigue siendo optimista acerca de las perspectivas a largo plazo de las mineras y mantiene sus calificaciones de compra para las acciones.

Lower rates may be behind bitcoin's big move (© Eugene Mymrin)

Finance

Middle East Oil Producers Move Into Bitcoin Mining With Crusoe Energy Stakes

The U.S. startup – which uses flared natural gas to power bitcoin mining rigs – counts the sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi and Oman as investors.

Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller with Mulham Basheer Al Jarf, deputy president of OIA and chairman of Oman oil company OQ (Crusoe)

Finance

Market Rout Prompts Analyst to Slash Bitcoin Miners’ Price Targets by Average of 65%

BTIG’s analyst remains positive on the longer-term outlook for the miners, however, and is sticking with his buy ratings for the stocks.

Lower rates may be behind bitcoin's big move (© Eugene Mymrin)