Eliza Gkritsi

Eliza Gkritsi is a CoinDesk contributor focused on the intersection of crypto and AI, having previously covered mining for two years. She previously worked at TechNode in Shanghai and has graduated from the London School of Economics, Fudan University, and the University of York. She owns 25 WLD. She tweets as @egreechee.

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Finance

Crypto Terms Become Dirty Words as Bear Market Lingers

Companies are taking steps to mask their industry ties during a time of scandals and losses.

(Getty Images)

Finance

Argo Blockchain's Bitcoin Mining Margin Widens Most in at Least a Year

December production fell 26% as Argo powered off during a Texas storm.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

Finance

Hong Kong Firm With Ties to Bitmain Reorganizes to Focus on Crypto Asset Management and Hedging

Newly named Metalpha has its work cut out for it, hedging an uncertain market for institutional clients.

(DALL-E/CoinDesk)

Finance

Hive Earned Equivalent of 184 BTC From Curtailing Its Power Use in December

The miner has also installed the first Buzzminers, computers it designed using Intel's new bitcoin mining chip.

Crypto mining stocks have lost roughly half of their value in the past month. (Sandali Handagama for CoinDesk)

Finance

Jefferies Downgrades Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital on Construction Delays

The asset-light crypto miner won't reach its 23 EH/s hashrate target by mid-2023, the bank said, while also lowering its price target to $4.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Juridique

Singapore Arbitrator Rules Against Mining Software Firm Poolin’s IOU Model, But the Firm Hasn't Paid Yet

Poolin had issued I-owe-you tokens in exchange for its users’ crypto deposits. A Singapore arbitrator said that’s not OK.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Marathon Digital Pays Off Silvergate Revolving Credit

The company also reiterated its expectation to have 23 exahash per second of computing power around the middle of 2023.

Marathon Digital CEO Fred Thiel, at the Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Juridique

Iranian Courts Order Return of Thousands of Seized Crypto Mining Machines: Reports

The country has been cracking down on mining to deal with power shortages.

(Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Core Scientific to Shut Down Celsius Crypto Mining Equipment

The two firms have been engaged in litigation over a 2020 hosting contract, which Core Scientific says is costing it $2 million in revenue per month.

Core Scientific CEO Mike Levitt (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Juridique

Compass Mining Wins $1.5M in Lawsuit Against Hosting Firm

The mining-services broker claimed Dynamics Mining failed to provide services it had agreed to.

Compass Mining's booth at Mining Disrupt in Miami in July 2022. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)