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Brian Cohen has a Masters Degree in Library Science which means he’s supposed to be a librarian…he’s not. Back when Brian was a mover and a shaker during the “Internet Bubble” he was a Business Development Analyst in charge of Competitive Intelligence for an Artificial Intelligence company called Webmind (a.k.a Intelligenesis). Webmind was supposed to predict the stock market and was to one day emerge as a global web of intelligence that was to transform the world. On August 4th, 1999 he bought the first T-shirt ever sold on CafePress. When his parents aren’t receiving phone calls from Microsoft, he likes to write articles on e-commerce. Brian’s first article on e-commerce "Reaching eBay Global Markets with the Help of PayPal Multiple Currencies" was published by Auctionbytes in December 2002. Brian’s news breaking stories have been referenced in numerous publications including CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, The Register, io9, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Vice, The Verge and PC World. His first Bitcoin article was “How PayPal Almost Liberated Cyprus.” He has been quoted by Reason, The Daily Dot and Tech Week Europe. If you ask him if he coined the term “iPod Classic,” he will tell you with a straight face that he did. He enjoys rooftop urban gardening.
Brian can be contacted through his website at www.bitofthis.com or on Twitter @inthepixels
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MasterCard Files Bitcoin Patent Application with United States Patent and Trademark Office
June 30th, 2014 by
Brian Cohen On June 19th, 2014, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published Mastercard International Incorporated’s patent application 20140172633 (13/829421), “Payment Interchange For Use With Global Shopping Cart.” The application was filed with USPTO on March 14th, 2013. Brian Cohen breaks this devloping story.Read More -
Bitcoin or “DARPACoin” Could Save Civilization After a Nuclear Event
June 10th, 2014 by
Brian Cohen Could Bitcoin save society after a nuclear disaster? Brian Cohen looks back at the early history of the internet Vis-à-vis ARPANET and RAND. Then he uncovers unlcassified cold war documents ("Options for Accelerating Economic Recovery After Nuclear Attack") from FEMA regarding the circulation of alternative currencies, property rights and a fractured Federal Reserve System after a nuclear strike by the Soviet Union. Finally we catch up with DARPA's latest grant for an altcoin called TorCoin (a.k.a DARPACoin). Read More -
Why Your Alt-Coin Is No Good Here
February 14th, 2014 by
Brian Cohen By Brian Cohen
Stanley Kubrick is known for being a filmmaker and not a cryptographer. However, Kubrick’s films have hidden “fractal” narratives with coded messages that Rob Ager has been deciphering through his amazing film analysis on his website Collative Learning and on Read More
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CGAP: Bitcoin Not Helping the Poor
February 2nd, 2014 by
Brian Cohen Bitcoin will have its greatest, most lasting impact on the six billion humans living outside the western world... Or so we've been told! World Bank & Gates Foundation sponsored "Consultative Groups to Assist the Poor" has taken a look at the subject and they just don't agree.
Investigative journalist Brian Cohen dug into their study and submits this report for your perusal.
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Alcatel-Lucent files Patent for Vault to Wallet Transfer System
January 28th, 2014 by
Brian Cohen The essence of the patent is a system whereby a decentralized currency such as Bitcoin is stored in a secure environment known as a Vault and a smaller unsecured portion of funds are stored in an unsecured Wallet.
With cryptocurrency thefts in the news as the price hovers near $1000 each, Brian Cohen catches another patent in this LTB exclusive.
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IBM Building "e-Currency Platform," including Bitcoin
December 18th, 2013 by
Brian Cohen Hot on the heels of Chase's mystery patents last month, patent documents from IBM reveal interesting plans for the digital currency market. IBM's new filing is much less vague and even less competitive, it seems; rather than outlining a whole new currency solution, it sounds like IBM plans to unite the currencies of the world to a degree we've never seen... if all goes well. Read More -
JPMorgan Chase Building Bitcoin-Killer
December 9th, 2013 by
Brian Cohen BREAKING - Over the American Thanksgiving holiday, the US Patent and Trademark Office published the details of a patent application filed by JPMorgan Chase in August. The patent suggests Chase bank is attempting to construct a rival digital-cash network with a number of startling similarities to existing Bitcoin protocol- Brian Cohen has first details. Read More -
OIG Hands Virtual-Currency Reins to FinCEN
October 5th, 2013 by
Brian Cohen Seemingly moments before the US Government went offline, the Treasure Office of Inspector General quietly released the U.S. Treasury's Annual Plan for 2014. Unlike its 2013 predecessor, the new plan makes several new distinctions for the concepts of "virtual currency." Brian Cohen researches and explains many of the subtle points of the new plan, and how new lines of authority may lead to future regulations.
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Bitcoin Professionals Double in Four Months
September 21st, 2013 by
Brian Cohen LinkedIn is still the top social network for business professionals- and now, there is a growing community of Bitcoin professionals as well. Is this new surge a sign of mainstream adoption? Or are Bitcoin enthusiasts just being more vocal about it? Brian Cohen gives his thoughts.
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Bitcoin Goes to Washington
August 15th, 2013 by
Brian Cohen The cash-like nature of Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin seem to be fundamentally at odds with the identity-based financial systems weve used since the advent of the internet. Call it threat or legitimacy, the one thing we know is things won't stay the way they are now. Bitcoin is coming of age.
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