Cointelligence Blog

Iran’s ICT Minister stated that their central bank is working on an in-country developed cryptocurrency which will soon be tested by the ICT ministry. This past week, Venezuela rolled out the new cryptocurrency called the Petro (PTR).

Can Coinsquare's march towards an IPO inject good faith into the relationship between regulators and crypto traders?

Another company has decided to gain in on the crypto hype by announcing the launch of a blockchain based platform to revolutionize the skincare industry. EpigenCare uses epigenetic techniques and the blockchain technology to create personalized skincare products.

Enigma is an off-chain, peer-to-peer network that provides various parties with the ability to jointly store and perform computations on data while keeping it completely private via the use of secret contracts. Guy Zyskind, CEO and co-founder of Enigma, helped us produce an overview of secret contracts...

The FCC notified a bitcoin miner that he has to stop his mining operations as it is disrupting T-mobile's signals in the vicinity. The FCC's “direction finding techniques” revealed the cause of this interference to be an Antminer S5 mining rig.

Dogecoin, the coin designed and released in order to satirize the industry, is unironically getting a hard fork later this year.

Steven Seagal has decided to help market a new cryptocurrency known as Bitcoiin2Gen (B2G). The team behind the new coin claims its inspiration is "to make a superior or more advanced version of the original Bitcoin."

The latest Bitcoin Core client update has been released for public editing on February 15th. The 0.16.0 release includes full SegWit support, in addition to a myriad of other upgrades.

HealthCombix has just partnered with NuCypher to launch a blockchain based system that will improve information sharing in the healthcare industry. The ICO is expected to take place by the end of this year, or in the beginning of 2019.

Well-known figures in the cryptocurrency space are set to advise the world's first "accredited" blockchain educational institution, as it attempts to fill the blockchain talent void.