Latest Cryptocurrency News: The Canadian government’s research arm is now blockchain-enabled Only a few days ago, it was reported that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service viewed blockchain as one of several “mega-trends” that will have broad economic and social impact in the years to come. Sure enough, the country’s primary research center has begun placing bets on the technology. Set up as part of the Canadian government’s “brain,” the National Research Council collects and publishes a wide variety of scientific and industrial information. Now that brain is, in part, blockchain-enabled. The NRC has been experimenting with software by Canadian blockchain darlings Bitaccess to build a system that lets public institutions…