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

Digihost Becomes First Publicly Traded Miner to Offer Bitcoin Dividend Payments

The miner also expects a 1.5 exahash per second (EH/s) of average hashrate for 2022, which is about 5.5x more than its 2021 mining power.

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Finance

Intel Doubles Down on ESG With Launch of Second-Gen Bitcoin Mining Chips

The “Intel Blockscale ASIC” chip boasts efficiency up to 26 J/TH, which would make it better than most Bitmain and MicroBT models now on the market.

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Finance

Riot Blockchain Files to Sell Up to $500M of Stock

Proceeds from the "at-the-market" offering would be used for general corporate purposes, which may include investments in existing and future projects.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner PrimeBlock Plans to Go Public With $1.25B SPAC Merger

The deal is expected to close in the second half of this year.

Crypto mining machines. (lmstockwork/Shutterstock)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Greenidge Q4 Revenue Matches Estimate; Reiterates Hashrate Guidance

The company also said permission for operations to continue at its New York facility has been delayed again.

Greenidge Mining center

Finance

CleanSpark Aims to Be Among Top Bitcoin Miners With Up to 500MW Expansion

The deal with Houston-based Lancium will give CleanSpark a mining hashrate of 10.4 EH/s by spring 2023.

Solar panels on a CleanSpark client's roof. (Danielle Nazareno/CleanSpark)

Finance

Analyst Still Positive on Stronghold Digital Despite Miss, Citing Miner’s Low Costs

The bitcoin miner’s stock tumbled more than 30% after it missed earnings estimates and said it won’t reach its 2022 hashrate goal.

Stronghold's power plant in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific’s Full-Year Sales Rise to $545M, Beating Estimates

The miner also reiterated its 2022 hashrate expectations and expects more M&A within the crypto mining industry over the next 12 months.

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

Finance

DA Davidson Cuts Miner Stronghold’s Target by 40% Ahead of Earnings

The stock is still “super cheap” compared to other mining peers, analyst says.

Stronghold Digital Mining CEO Greg Beard (right) and Co-Chairman Bill Spence (left). 
(Stronghold Digital Mining)

Tech

Blockware Solutions Builds 20MW Bitcoin Mining Data Center in Kentucky

The facility has potential to be expanded to 75MW.

Blockware Solution's Kentucky data center. (Blockware Solutions)