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}}Amir Taaki (; born 6 February 1988) is a British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer who is known for his leading role in the Bitcoin project, and for pioneering many open source projects.WEB, Colao, J.J., Amir Taaki, 25 - In Photos: 2014 30 under 30: Technology,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140109072551weblink">weblink 9 January 2014, Forbes, NEWS, Ball, James, 20 April 2012, Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet, The Guardian, London,weblink 20 April 2012, Forbes listed Taaki in their 30 Under 30 listing of 2014.WEB, Forbes 30 Under 30,weblink Forbes, 4 October 2018, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140107154641weblink">weblink 2014-01-07, limited, live, Meet the world's next billionaires - from Mashable's Pete Cashmore to Bitcoin renegade Amir Taaki, The Independent, 7 January 2014, Driven by the political philosophy of the Rojava revolution, Taaki traveled to Syria, served in the YPG military, and worked in Rojava's civil society on various economic projects for a year and a half.WEB,weblink Tech enigma Amir Taaki on Forbes and fighting Isis in Syria, Susannah Butter, Standard.co.uk, 6 April 2017,

Biography

Amir Taaki was born 6 February 1988WEB, Amir Taaki,weblink Companies House, 4 October 2018, in London, the eldest of three children of a Scottish-English mother and an Iranian father who is a property developer. Taaki grew up in nearby Kent.BOOK, Bartlett, Jamie,weblink The dark net : inside the digital underworld, 2015, 978-1-61219-489-9, Brooklyn, 900594552, Jamie Bartlett, From an early age Taaki took an interest in computer technology, teaching himself computer programming.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110326214259weblink">"Speakers 2011," 11th International EPCA Summit, European Payments Consulting Association, www.epcaconference.com/ Retrieved 11 October 2011.After briefly attending two British universities,NEWS, Herrmann, Joshi, Silicon Roundabout's not for him: meet super-hacker, master coder and Bitcoin boy Amir Taaki in his Hackney squat,weblink 30 June 2015, 29 January 2014, Taaki gravitated to the free software movement. Taaki assisted in the creation of SDL Collide, an extension of Simple DirectMedia Layer, an open source library used by video game developers.WEB, SDL_Collide,weblink SourceForge, 4 October 2018, 8 Jan 2015, In 2009 and 2010, Taaki made his living as a professional poker player. His experience with online gambling attracted him to the Bitcoin project.WEB, Ball, James, James Ball (journalist), 2011-06-22, Bitcoins: What are they, and how do they work?,weblink 2024-04-13, The Guardian, en-GB, At one point, he was listed among Bitcoin's main developers.WEB, Herrmann, Joshi, The Anarchist Hacker Bitcoin Would Rather Not Talk About, Vice, 2015-07-10,weblink en, 2021-08-13, He founded the first UK Bitcoin exchange, "Britcoin", which was succeeded in 2011 by a new British exchange called Intersango, in which he was a principal developer.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20120426062717weblink">"About Us: Personal Statements," Intersango, britcoin.co.uk Intersango has since closed.NEWS, Cryptoanarchists pull trigger on fight over future of Bitcoin, Financial Times, 2013-10-31,weblink In 2012, Taaki organized the first Bitcoin conference in London.NEWS,weblink Internet showdown: Why digital freedom matters to us all, Healy, Hazel, New Internationalist, 1 December 2012, 16 August 2022, London, In 2014, together with Cody Wilson, he launched the Dark Wallet project after a crowdfunding run on IndieGoGo which raised over $50,000.MAGAZINE, Del Castillo, Michael, Dark Wallet: A Radical Way to Bitcoin,weblink The New Yorker, 24 September 2013, 15 May 2014, WEB, Greenberg, Andy, Dark Wallet Aims To Be The Anarchist's Bitcoin App of Choice,weblink Forbes Online, 31 October 2013, 15 May 2014, MAGAZINE, Greenberg, Andy, 'Dark Wallet' Is About to Make Bitcoin Money Laundering Easier Than Ever,weblink Wired, 29 April 2014, 15 May 2014, Taaki, along with other developers from Airbitz, a Bitcoin software company, created a prototype for a decentralised marketplace called "DarkMarket" in 2014, at a hackathon in Toronto, which was forked into the OpenBazaar project.MAGAZINE,weblink Inside the 'DarkMarket' Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize, Greenberg, Andy, Wired (website), Wired, 24 April 2014, 23 August 2014, As of 2013, he resided in an anarchist squat in the former anti-G8 HQ building in London, England.NEWS, Siddique, Haroon, G8: riot police enter central London building occupied by protesters,weblink 8 July 2015, 11 June 2013, NEWS, Copestake, Jen, Hiding currency in the Dark Wallet,weblink 8 July 2015, 19 September 2014, In 2015, Taaki went to Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) to offer his skills to the revolution and served the YPG military.MAGAZINE, Greenberg, Andy, How an anarchist Bitcoin coder found himself fighting ISIS in Syria,weblink Wired, 4 October 2018, 29 Mar 2017, He had no training but spent three and a half months in the YPG military fighting on the front. He was then discharged and worked in the civil society for over a year on various projects for Rojava's economics committee.In February 2018, Taaki created a group in Catalonia dedicated to leveraging blockchain technology to help national liberation causes such as the Catalan independence movement.MAGAZINE,weblink Amir fought Isis in Syria, now he's enlisting an army of hacker monks to save bitcoin from itself, wired, 6 Mar 2018, Volpicelli, Gian, 3 Oct 2018, In 2023, Politico reported that Taaki was working on an anarchist project called DarkFi that aimed to allow people to form organizations that collectively raise and distribute money in complete secrecy.Schreckinger, Ben (February 2, 2023) "A new crypto threat to government launches." Politico. (Retrieved March 6, 2023).

See also

• Crypto-anarchism
• Cypherpunk

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External links

• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180310052352weblink">Personal website

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