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Short bio

~45 words

Tayyub Yaqoob is a Senior Digital Analyst at 8 Million Stories, based in Stirling, Scotland. He builds analytics, automation, and measurement systems for client teams and writes about AI, crypto-security, and quantum risk for Cointelegraph and AlphaWire.

Long bio

~140 words

Tayyub Yaqoob is a Senior Digital Analyst at 8 Million Stories. He builds Codex — the firm's internal competitive-intelligence and site-performance platform — and works on analytics, AI-search visibility, and reporting automation for client teams including the BBC, General Mills, Tesco, Royal London, and NerdWallet. Outside client work he writes for Cointelegraph and AlphaWire on AI agents, AI-driven crypto trading, and quantum risk. CCN has commissioned him as an expert source on agent wallets, AI trading bots, and AI-generated code risk. Inside Higher Ed cited him by name as 'Researcher Tayyub Yaqoob' in Ray Schroeder's column on Auto-GPT, co-cited alongside MIT Technology Review and Wired. He is an invited peer reviewer for IGI Global. He studied Computing Science at the University of Stirling.

Topics

  • AI agents and agentic AI risk
  • AI-driven crypto trading and security
  • Quantum-resistant cryptography
  • AI-search visibility (AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity)
  • AI in analytics and measurement
  • AI-generated code and supply-chain risk

Media appearances

Academic citations

Syndication & translation

  • Microsoft MSN
    Three Cointelegraph pieces syndicated across MSN Money, Technology, and Personal Finance with byline preserved.
  • TradingView
    Cointelegraph article on Satoshi's Bitcoin and quantum computing syndicated to TradingView News (Nov 2025).
  • Binance Square (Golden Finance)
    Articles translated into Arabic and Spanish on the world's largest digital-asset exchange.
  • BingX News
    Dedicated author profile (#299) with translations into Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.

Booking

Email tayyabyaqoob.1@gmail.com with the outlet, format, topic, and timing. I typically respond within two business days.