Ranjitha Shastry

A report by the World Trade Organization said that Ripple, the remittance network, "has ambitions to circumvent the correspondent banking model through its distributed ledger platform."

The contribution by Yale University is considered significant the investment is headed by David F. Swensen, chief investment officer at the university and a pioneer in institutional investing.

A report by McAfee Labs showed that malware infections related to cryptocurrency mining grew by 80 percent in the April-June quarter of 2018, compared to the previous three months.

Bram Cohen, one of the creators of BitTorrent, is set to launch his Chia cryptocurrency in 2019, and he said mining it would be like "farming."

According to Alibaba's patent application, the smart contracts system would effectively supervise all accounts in a blockchain network.

TravelbyBit is a multi-currency payment platform and currently supports payments in bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. It is targeted at the travel industry.

Price manipulation has been a huge concern in the cryptocurrency market that has affected both the growth of cryptocurrencies and their regulatory acceptance.

"This is an important ruling that confirms the authority of the CFTC to investigate and combat fraud in the virtual currency markets," the agency's director of enforcement said Wednesday.

Tiger Global Management is in talks with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, which was valued at $1.6 billion in August after a $100 investment million by a venture capital firm.

Over the past 8 years, about 31 cryptocurrency exchanges have been hacked and about $1.3 billion have been stolen. A new report says over half of all exchanges don't have proper user account security in place.

A video on YouTube shows a series of complex steps involving Siri, Apple's VoiceOver screen reader feature, and Notes application that can get by the passcode security on iPhone devices running iOS 12.

Launched in 2015, Zebpay was originally called BuySellBitco and had raised close to $1 million in equity funding from angel investors.

By securing investment, the startup from Switzerland which is run by former USB executives, intends to become a licensed bank and securities dealer called SEBA Crypto AG.

Securing America's Internet of Value Coalition plans to pay Klein/Johnson Group, a bipartisan lobbyist and a public policy firm, about $25,000 and 10,000 XRP tokens every month.

Dell EMC's servers and networking business posted a revenue of $5.1 billion in the second quarter of 2018, a 34 percent increase from 2017.

The maker of Antminer devices for mining cryptocurrencies, Bitmain grossed over $2.5 billion in revenue in 2017, and sales in first six months of 2018 surpassed $2.8 billion.

Currently, Coinbase supports five cryptocurrencies - bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, ethereum classic, and litecoin - on its exchange platform.

The prices of the stolen frequent flyer miles on the dark web were not consistent across vendors, and could be based on the vendor’s own needs rather than on supply and demand.

For tracing the food products sold in its stores, Walmart has tied up with technology company IBM to implement blockchain in its food supply chain process.

DubaiPay collected about $3 billion from 9.4 million transactions in 2017, an increase of 17 percent compared to 2016.

Around 530 blockchain startups have settled in Switzerland’s Crypto Valley hub around Zurich and Zug.

In March, a total of 85 ethereum tokens were raised by an earlier UNICEF initiative, called Game Chaingers, that mined cryptocurrencies for humanitarian activities.

Current IRS guidance on cryptocurrency dates back to 2014 when bitcoin traded at a fraction of its current value and most altcoins had not yet been created.

Ripple has major institutions and companies — including MoneyGram, Western Union, Mercury FX and Cambridge Global Payments — testing xRapid, which could use the XRP token.

According to the State Department's own records, it employs 69,000 people, of which about 600-700 were affected by the breach of the department's unclassified email system.

Out of the $60 million worth of tokens that were stolen from Zaif, $20 million was owned by the cryptocurrency exchange.

The public charity of Fidelity Investments started to allow philanthropists to donate using bitcoin in 2015 and raised up to $6 million in cryptocurrency donations in the first half of 2017.

Some of the problems in the cryptocurrency space are volatile prices, vulnerabilities to hacking, minimal consumer protection, and anonymity that could aid money laundering.

Cryptojacking has become an increasingly popular way for hackers to acquire unauthorized access to personal computers for mining cryptocurrencies.