Zoran Spirkovski

Zoran Spirkovski is a freelance journalist, brand strategist, and author published by CryptoBriefing, BeInCrypto, CryptoNewsNet, and NewsBlockchain. He writes about blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, branding, marketing, and productivity, and other stories that brew up in his mind.
He writes a daily blog about the same topics at zoransp.medium.com and he regularly contributes to freelance discussion groups.

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Ripple’s xSongs to Challenge Global Music Sales Sector

At the onset of the new year, an article was published by The Block Crypto, where they speak with Ripple executive Craig DeWitt about his new addition to the XRP ecosystem. xSongs, a platform for musicians to sell their songs directly through the public. In addition, the app will charge no fees to artists, enabling them…

January 14, 20200Comments

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Blockchain ETF Soon to Be on Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China

China is well on its way to having its first blockchain ETF traded on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, as suggested in the official release by the exchange on December 24th 2019. The index fund is named "SZSE Blockchain 50 Index" and at the time of writing, no official information supports the case that it is actively…

January 12, 20200Comments

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China’s Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) & Why it’s Extremely Relevant

Blockchain development has a reputation for being extremely expensive, demanding a high amount of financial, technological, and human resources to provide value to organizations. The most common type of blockchain that we generally encounter is permissionless, the types of blockchains serving as the foundation for all of the cryptocurrencies that we use regularly such as…

January 3, 20200Comments

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Japan Card Issuer JCB to Include Blockchain Tech for B2B Payments

Financial giant and card provided JCB and Paystand, a payment network that leverages blockchain technology, have entered into an agreement to create the first end-to-end blockchain-powered B2B digital payment platform for Japanese enterprises and JCB’s customers in Japan and Asia, according to a press release from the companies. The annual value of the…

December 31, 20190Comments

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Lightning Network Gets a Significant Upgrade by Blockstream

Blockstream’s “c-lightning” team announced their latest update to their version of the lightning network protocol through a blog post on December 18th and there have been a lot of interesting changes. As noted by the developers, three significant changes make this update so interesting. For starters, any new lightning network nodes will be…

December 25, 20190Comments

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tZERO and BLOQ FLIX to supposedly tokenize films

tZERO partners with entertainment financing company BLOQ FLIX to tokenize films, or at least that's what they say in their press release published on the 12th of September. The reality is actually quite different and this is a pure misrepresentation of the truth. tZero is going to provide Bloq Flix with the technology to tokenize entertainment…

October 9, 20190Comments

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Mastercard & R3 to Work Together on international Blockchain-powered Payment System

The world of finance is growing more and more automated, with major payments provider Mastercard and R3, a growing blockchain development company having made a joint announcement about their partnership through a press release on the 11th of September. They hope to put their forces together and create a pilot program that will improve connections for…

September 30, 20190Comments

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bitHolla to provide 10x cheaper exchanges with new product

Edit: We reached out to bitHolla, and they explained that their HEX system still requires custom onboarding, configuration, and cooperation. They expect to have a DIY version of the exchange kit by next month, which is going to be a full client with open source code. bitHolla, a South Korean company released an "open" exchange kit…

September 23, 20190Comments

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Huobi releases “Acute Angle” an Android-based blockchain phone in China

With the launch of their native token NODE on September 11th, Huobi has also launched their first blockchain phone, Acute Angle. First information about the phone were published in a press release earlier this week. Huobi Global and Huobi Capital worked together on the 6th Huobi Prime trading event, which included the phone and native…

September 12, 20190Comments

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Top 5 Bitcoin Lightning Network Industries

This article explores the current state of the Lightning Network and the categories/industries which have adopted the second layer technology. They are pioneers breaking new ground and testing out a very important improvement and a potential solution to the Bitcoin scalability issue.

July 28, 20190Comments

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