Is This Genjix?

Amir Taaki, 25, Dark Wallet

Amir Taaki, 25, is the British-Iranian co-founder of Dark Wallet, a service that wants to be “The Anarchist’s Bitcoin App Of Choice.”

The folks behind Dark Wallet think the community that has evolved around Bitcoin, the digital currency, has become a bit too friendly with the Establishment around the world.

Dark Wallet says it allows Bitcoin users to spend and receive the currency just like other services but that unlike some “wallets” it is designed to preserve the status of Bitcoin as an anonymous, hard-to-trace currency.

“Many prominent Bitcoin developers are actively in collusion with members of law enforcement and seeking approval from government legislators,” says Dark Wallet on its site.

We believe this is not in Bitcoin user’s self interest, and instead serves wealthy business interests that make up the self-titled Bitcoin Foundation...

“We don’t need to cooperate with control freaks. Disobedience is the only way.”

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/bus...coin-renegade-amir-taaki-9042710.html

he could be a billionaire in the future.

know anyone else called Amir Taaki?

i do not know genjix's real name tbh.

Good luck Dark Wallet!

is it true genjix lived in an abandoned building at one point?

lol. this guys a legend if true. it would make a good rags to riches story.

he was living a real modest life doing the couch surfing thing in different places like turkey etc. we were real good skype buddies at one point and talked poker and his adventures most times, he tried explaining bitcoins to me like on a hundred different occassions and even sent me 5 btc just to try it out - i returned it because i honestly didnt understand shit. he even let me join in some internet freedom group skype chat with other like minded friends of his and i really didnt know wtf i was doing there haha. hes hardcore smart math guy for sure.

steal city and him are real tight and they go a long way (somewhere in eastern europe iirc) i wouldnt be surprised if they made a lot of money out of bitcoin. anyway im just proud to tell that story to my grandkids when the time comes lol

cool. his story is inspiring. hope some of the younger guys here follow his path in developing apps for crypto-currencies. i am taking courses in java scripting/jquery/angularjs/nodejs tbh. whamm, join me.

Oh god, 25 year old anarchist?. Usually the rebellious anti government stage dies out at the age of 16. Anyway, I think anonymous untraceable currency is horrible idea. Everything should be able to be traced back.

On June 28 2014 19:11 lucky331 wrote: is it true genjix lived in an abandoned building at one point?

I hear he gets facial reconstructive surgery every 4-5 years so that nobody knows what he looks like

On June 29 2014 03:40 awesomeguy wrote: Oh god, 25 year old anarchist?. Usually the rebellious anti government stage dies out at the age of 16. Anyway, I think anonymous untraceable currency is horrible idea. Everything should be able to be traced back.

gtfo

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op be shillin

On June 29 2014 10:36 lebowski wrote: Show nested quote + On June 28 2014 19:11 lucky331 wrote: is it true genjix lived in an abandoned building at one point? I hear he gets facial reconstructive surgery every 4-5 years so that nobody knows what he looks like

"How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"

Waiting for Dark



... Taaki, meanwhile, took a more wayward path. He tried a career as a videogame programmer but left his job amid infighting among the open source developers. Disillusioned with programming, he wandered Europe and the Middle East for years, living off his winnings as an online poker player. He slept in squats, jumped turnstiles, and learned Esperanto. As gambling started to feel rote and mechanical, he began to imagine programming his own poker site based on open source code, exposing the cryptographic algorithms so that the games would be provably fair. As he explored ways to handle payments on the site, a mathematician friend sent him Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin white paper, which in late 2010 still seemed like a theoretical moonshot. After several days of reading bitcoin forums, “suddenly everything connected and it was like, oh wow, fuck, a big fire in my head,” he says... continued

It's a good read: http://www.wired.com/2014/07/inside-dark-wallet/

lol @ esperanto

wtf genjix? jesus christ i guess he was kind of obssessed more with blind ideals than becoming successful and wealthy. I honestly dont think steal city wouldve signed up for this and would probably guess they had a falling out somewhere in the middle of their venture. I feel sad reading the article coz genjix was a normal internet teenager before going down this rabbit hole.

in b4 reynolds'ed

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On July 12 2014 18:32 whamm! wrote: wtf genjix? jesus christ i guess he was kind of obssessed more with blind ideals than becoming successful and wealthy. I honestly dont think steal city wouldve signed up for this and would probably guess they had a falling out somewhere in the middle of their venture. I feel sad reading the article coz genjix was a normal internet teenager before going down this rabbit hole.

he was already showing signs of being some sort of rebel from my few chats with him online. especially when the topic was about cryptography and decentralization.

thru cryptography, trust based systems can be replaced by code based systems. which i think is awesome.

I honestly dont think steal city wouldve signed up for this and would probably guess they had a falling out somewhere in the middle of their venture.

i hope not. it's potentially worth a lot of money.