Sundance 2017: Amir Taaki, Cody Wilson and ‘Defense Of Criminality’
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....
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This article first appeared at Bitcoin Not Bombs. I had the opportunity to sit down with Cody Wilson, the creator of the world's first 3D printed gun and founder of Defense Distributed, at the Freedom Summit in Phoenix, AZ. We were both there to give talks on Bitcoin and the event was put on by radio host Ernest Hancock of Freedom's Phoenix and Declare Your Independence. In this interview we discuss philosophy, decentralized resistance, Dark Wallet, Defense Distributed, and the role of humor in activism. I really enjoyed talking with Cody, who is fascinating and frank in this interview,....
The developers of Darkwallet, the intentionally controversial and OBPP award winning Privacy Bitcoin client are believed to have abandoned the project. One of the developers, Amir Taaki, is allegedly busy “developing something that requires a lot of his attention.” Father of the 3d printed gun and cofounder of Darkwallet Cody Wilson stated: Taaki is “working hard,” he added. “Just developing something that requires a lot of his attention,” as revealed in a recent thread on the UnSystem mailing list. “Amir will be largely unable to contribute for the next few months into even late next....
Of all the Bitcoin regulations we might have loved or hated, one thing was pretty common - the government's lust for customers' private transaction details. In 2013, celebrated technologists and privacy activists - Cody Wilson and Amir Taaki - took such "legal" interventions seriously and decided to bring financial privacy for international citizens. Their liberal mindsets spoke of methods that could protect internet users from authoritarian administrations, something that gave birth to an idea, which we now know as the Dark Wallet. The underground Bitcoin vault, launched in 2014, ensured....
Upstart Business Journal reveals that crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson will run for a board seat on the Bitcoin Foundation for no other reason than to disband the organization from within. His next opportunity will be in January 2015 when some seats will be up for election. Wilson said: "I will run on a platform of the complete dissolution of the Bitcoin Foundation and will begin and end every single one of my public statements with that message." Wilson is a co-founder of Dark Wallet, a project that adds layers of privacy and anonymity to Bitcoin transactions. He is also a co-founder and....