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Olga Kharif

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ARTICLES BY OLGA KHARIF

The cryptosphere was hit hard by a global risk-off investment stance (Photo: iStock)

The crypto slump left 12,100 coins in zombie trading limbo

4 min read . 04 Oct 2022

Photo: Bloomberg

Bitcoin network approves privacy update as scrutiny increases

3 min read . 16 Jun 2021

An attendee stops to text next to Epic Games Fortnite sign at E3, the annual video games expo. (REUTERS)

Apple vs Fortnite developer Epic Games: Here is what is at stake

3 min read . 27 Sep 2020

Ninja takes a selfie with attendees at an event in Los Angeles (Bloomberg)

Despite Ninja, Microsoft's Mixer video-game streaming service struggles

1 min read . 13 Feb 2020

Bitcoin’s purported creator may not be able to hand over $3 billion

1 min read . 30 Dec 2019

Tether’s monthly trading volume about 18% higher than that of Bitcoin (REUTERS)

The world’s most-used Cryptocurrency isn’t Bitcoin

4 min read . 02 Oct 2019

An analyst pegs the size of this so-called edge-computing market at more than $4 trillion by 2030 (Reuters)

Amazon's cloud-computing empire faces a new threat: Edge-computing

3 min read . 21 Aug 2019

Bitcoin prices remains volatile, more than doubling this year after tumbling 73% in 2018 (AFP )

Bitcoin trades at a premium in some countries

1 min read . 14 Aug 2019

Bitcoin’s price has rebounded this year. (Reuters)

Smart money said ‘Skip Bitcoin, bet on blockchain.’ Not any more

1 min read . 18 Jul 2019

In 2017, the Bitcoin euphoria sparked a frenzied interest in all things blockchain. (Reuters)

Bitcoin's rally feels like 2017, but it's not quite the same

3 min read . 27 Jun 2019

oftBank founder Masayoshi Son. (Photo: Bloomberg)

SoftBank has a big Sprint problem on its hands without T-Mobile

3 min read . 06 May 2019

Apple’s rivals see 5G as ‘golden opportunity’ to beat iPhone

4 min read . 09 Apr 2019

While SoftBank owns a majority of Sprint, T-Mobile is controlled by Deutsche Telekom. Photo: AP

Sprint, T-Mobile are said to revive talks about potential deal

1 min read . 11 Apr 2018

Regulatory pressure is mounting in the cryptocurrency space, while major social media platforms are distancing themselves from the industry. Photo: Bloomberg

Bitcoin breaches $7,000 in downbeat end to dismal quarter

1 min read . 30 Mar 2018

In 2016, Google started a trial for developers testing blockchain services on its cloud. Photo: Reuters

Google is said to work on blockchain-related technology

4 min read . 22 Mar 2018

For the past month, Bitcoin’s price has stalled between $8,500 and $11,300—a minuscule range by its standards. Photo: Bloomberg

Bitcoin pop culture moment fades as fad gives way to regulators

2 min read . 15 Mar 2018

Elon Musk helped change the calculus toward more frequent satellite launches with his SpaceX, which re-uses rather than discards expensive rockets. Photo: AP

Elon Musk’s dream of space-based Internet sent others crashing to Earth

4 min read . 28 Feb 2018

More than 1,000 such projects that record data onto digital ledgers and are called dapps, for decentralized applications, are live or in testing. Photo: Reuters

Websites using blockchain aim to disrupt Facebook

4 min read . 27 Feb 2018

Criminals looking to commandeer massive processing power to unlock new Monero coins have unleashed an epidemic of malicious software that burrows deep into victims’ web browsers to surreptitiously run calculations. Photo: iStockphoto

Hackers are trying to use your phones, computers to mine a cryptocurrency

1 min read . 17 Feb 2018

In general, investors seem more likely to run to bitcoin at times of panic. Photo: Reuters

Beating bitcoin requires alt-coin traders to mind correlations

2 min read . 16 Feb 2018

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