Articles by Ranjitha Shastry

Chicago-based cryptocurrency exchange ErisX announced Tuesday it received $27.5 million from Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Monex Group and Nasdaq.

Actress Priyanka Chopra wore a Ralph Lauren-designed dress and her veil was much longer than her good friend Meghan Markle's 16.4-foot long veil she wore at the royal wedding in May.

The recent meltdown of cryptocurrency prices resulted in over 100,000 individual miners closing operations. At least 600,000 bitcoin mining rigs have been shut down globally since mid-November, leading to deep discounts for the hardware.

Ibis hotel, in its in Geneva and Zurich location, is providing "social media sitters" who would take photos of the guests on vacation and post them on Instagram on their behalf.

Bitcoin fell from over $6,000 to below $3,500 within a span of 10 days, a 42 percent fall, in November. The last time it was trading at similar lows was in August 2017.

Asus, in partnership with Quantum Cloud, will design a software that allows gamers to use their idle graphics cards to mine cryptocurrency and receive a digital cash payout through PayPal or WeChat.

Kaspersky Labs published a report Wednesday that said Kazakhstan, Vietnam and Indonesia topped the list of countries that were targeted by crypto mining attacks in 2018.

Jared Rice, Sr., CEO of cryptocurrency firm AriseBank, was arrested by the FBI on Wednesday on charges for defrauding investors for over $4 million.

The SEC announced charges Thursday against professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music producer DJ Khaled for failing to disclose payments they received for promoting initial coin offerings.

The wedding has begun at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Rajasthan, India. Jonas and Chopra would exchange wedding vows in a Christian ceremony Dec. 2, followed by a Hindu ceremony the same day.

Made by Sirin Labs, blockchain-enabled smartphone Finney is embedded with a cold storage cryptocurrency wallet and is priced at $999.

The Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund would mainly focus on startups that concentrate on AI used in autonomous cars, robotics, and machine learning platforms.

The company said it sent notification letters to DD Perks account holders who may have encountered unauthorized access of their accounts.

While the SEC chairman said he had security concerns that must to addressed before approving bitcoin ETFs, Goldman Sachs was holding off on its plans for a crypto trading desk due to regulatory barriers.

In the last seven days, the price of bitcoin fell by 13 percent, XRP by 16 percent, ethereum by 15 percent, bitcoin cash by 22 percent, stellar by 23 percent, and EOS by 17 percent.

Authorities in Bulgaria arrested three suspects Thursday and charged them with theft of cryptocurrencies worth about $3 million.

Two mobile internet companies employed ad fraud schemes to claim app installation credit. Cybercriminals deployed malware ads to redirect users to fake websites with an intent to steal user data.

Department of Defense's research arm intends to host a blockchain workshop on February 2019 to understand the broader implications that the technology might hold for the DOD.

Gor Gevorkyan, a customer of Bitmain, alleged in a lawsuit that Bitmain was cryptojacking its customers’ newly-purchased mining devices to mine bitcoin.

The Paraguay government will provide 530,000 square feet of land and subsidized power to build the bitcoin mining farm, which would be located near the Itaipu Hydroelectric Power Plant.

Cryptocurrency mining firms in Norway received the same electricity tax discount as other power-intensive industries, meaning they paid less than 2.8 percent of the standard rate to power their rigs.

The European Commission announced Tuesday it would launch an association for trusted blockchain applications, and some banks have been invited to join this initiative.

Amid the slump in cryptocurrency prices, some small and medium-sized miners in China have been selling their mining machines in the second-hand market as they are not able to cover the electricity cost.

Market foresight advisory firm ABI Research assessed a number of platforms, including Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and Alibaba, that provide blockchain as a service.

Researchers from the Russian Quantum Center claimed quantum technology would soon have the ability to "make blockchains vulnerable."

The owner of a 421-year-old historic palazzo in Valletta, Malta — valued at $3 million — has said he would only accept bitcoin for its purchase, despite the recent fall in the cryptocurrency's value.

A 21-year-old Manhattan man, Nicholas Truglia, had hacked into the phones of six Silicon Valley executives but could only steal cryptocurrency from one of them.

The Department of Justice started an investigation into whether Tether and Bitfinex engaged in market manipulation for illegally moving bitcoin prices during December 2017, when they peaked.

To be held in April 2019, the blockchain and cryptocurrency conference in North Korea won't allow citizens from South Korea, Japan, Israel, as well as any foreign journalists.

The dispute started by the two groups behind bitcoin cash's two forks, bitcoin cash ABC and bitcoin cash SV, has cost miners losses of as much as $6.1 million in gross revenue, according to research.