Cointelligence Blog

As google Adsense and other conventional methods of marketing are not as profitable as they used to be, website owners are aching to find new ways to monetize their sites. Embedding cryptocurrency mining scripts in webpages has been found to be a very lucrative business.

The European Commission announced it will implement new security tools and practices to prevent cryptocurrency cybercrime.

Cryptocurrency is moving out of China and into Japan and South-Korea, making them the dominating countries on the Bitcoin Ecosystem.

FINMA shut down QUID PRO QUO that sold E-coins as a cryptocurrency. The Swiss watchdog says it has three more companies on its radar and is conducting 11 investigations.

Ethereum’s Metropolis hard fork moved a step further this week as the Byzantium update entered into the testing phase.

More than 50 days after the last hard fork, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network is up and running with full steam ahead. Different development teams are working on the BCH network in order to improve the cryptocurrency’s protocol.

By connecting with one of the leading payment processing companies, Bitpay is helping increase mainstream adoption of the cryptocurrency.

The Raiden Network’s work in progress to solve Ethereum’s scaling problems has hit a landmark as a test service called micro Raiden goes live on the Ehtereum Kovan testnet.

The Australian government has introduced a bill that will relieve cryptocurrencies from the problem of double taxation to allow Australian fin-tech sector to compete globally.

The Chinese government is reportedly about to move swiftly against Bitcoin trading and exchanges within the country. Access to exchanges oversees could be blocked as well.