Bitcoin's "Political Neutrality is a Myth" - Amir Taaki Interview
Amir Taaki is a skilled programmer and one of the leading minds behind Dark Wallet, an app that will allow Bitcoin users to easily conduct anonymous transactions. He also happens to have strong feelings about some other important actors in the cryptocurrency community. On July 24th, he posted this thread on Reddit’s /r/Bitcoin forum where he called out Bitcoin developer Mike Hearn as a “crony”, accused the Bitcoin Foundation of doing “jack shit for Bitcoin”, and pondered why web wallet/broker Circle had not responded to developer Peter Todd’s inquiries about whether they would be....
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Max Keiser sat down with the fireball Dark Wallet developer Amir Taaki in a far-reaching interview that touches on a number of cool topics: The anonymity-minded Bitcoin wallet as subject of a recent BBC piece, emerging political movements, and Apple's encryption scheme decried by the FBI. Mad about the state of democracy, bro? Curious about the future of Bitcoin? They discuss that too. Let's dig into it. “Are we on the cusp of a political awakening?”. Taaki launched the conversation by criticizing the idea that Bitcoin is merely a streamlined payment method. Actually, he offers many....
Dark Wallet developer Amir Taaki recently came out in support of convicted Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht. In a recent YouTube video, the British-Iranian techie said that he believes in the Ulbricht's version of events, in which it is mentioned that he was associated with the Silk Road only during the early days of its development. Taaki called Ulbricht a good guy, based on his first of many conversations with his pseudo identity "Dread Pirate Roberts". He guesstimated that there were multiple identities controlling the same profile, for they behaved differently every time he conversed....
Amir Taaki’s Bitcoin evangelism has been described by a critic as “defense of criminality” during the Sundance Film Festival 2017. Taaki’s ‘New-World Defense Of Criminality’. Taaki is one focus – along with 3D gun producer Cody Wilson – of ‘The New Radical,’ a documentary premiering at Sundance directed by Adam Bhala Lough. In a review of the film, Owen Gleiberman of Variety considered Taaki, who has been involved with Bitcoin since its earliest days, as a “charismatic spieler.” “He makes Bitcoin sound like the most liberating invention since the printing press (never mind that the real....
A team of developers has won the Bitcoin Expo hackathon in Toronto with DarkMarket, an innovative peer-to-peer market open to everyone, everywhere. Part of the team came from Airbitz, best known for the upcoming Airbitz wallet, a cloud-based solution with client-side encryption that aims to maximise security. The wallet project has web, Android and even iOS versions. The Airbitz team was backed by Amir Taaki and Pablo Martin from the Dark Wallet and libbitcoin projects. A P2P market for everyone. Dark Wallet developer Amir Taaki delivered the hackathon presentation, though he forgot to....