This is Altcoin news, from the world of Cryptocurrency. Today we look at a market update and see bitcoin below 9k as well as altcoins in the red. A new report says Egypt is secretly forcing citizens to mine cryptocurrency. We also look at an update from Poloniex exchange which says that their scheduled wallet maintenance will end shortly. Hacked Coincheck Exchange will refund users affected and will resume trading from next week according to their CEO. PayPal filed a patent to speed up crypto payments, however with the release of this news a bitcoin developer argues that such a technology already exists. We also look at updates from DragonChain, PACcoin and Quantstamps.