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.”
ggplz   Sweden. Jun 28 2014 10:44. Posts 16784
know anyone else called Amir Taaki?
if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN
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.
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whamm!   Albania. Jun 28 2014 21:31. Posts 11625
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.
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awesomeguy   Finland. Jun 29 2014 04:40. Posts 61
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.
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lebowski   Greece. Jun 29 2014 11:36. Posts 9205
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
new shit has come to light... a-and... shit! man...
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dogmeat   Czech Republic. Jun 29 2014 12:42. Posts 6374
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
ban baal
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mnj   United States. Jun 29 2014 14:07. Posts 3848
... 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
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.
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RaiNKhAN   United States. Jul 12 2014 19:37. Posts 4080
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.
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morph1   Sierra Leone. Jul 13 2014 07:19. Posts 2352
not gonna talk about this guy... but I have met him and he have partied with me and my good friend (Steal City) .. and I'll just say that there is some bs in that text
im more concerned with the company he keeps in that article. that 3d printed gun guy just talks like he is a ton of bad news. ive seen the vice docu on him and he's really kinda creepy
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traxamillion   United States. Jul 13 2014 11:54. Posts 10468
How is there a lot of money in it if everything is open source and they are giving it away to anyone? Donations lol?
I always thought genjix must have stacked thousands of coins and then got rich the month they shot from 10 apiece to 1,000 apiece
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traxamillion   United States. Jul 13 2014 11:55. Posts 10468
But I guess not?
I agree with what they are doing though and I'm sure their group has the talent to make some money if they want. Sounds like that Wilson guy already has.
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SemPeR   Canada. Aug 03 2014 18:02. Posts 2288
in order of recency, sort-of.
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SemPeR   Canada. Aug 03 2014 18:21. Posts 2288
fwiw, I think it's easy to take the "man these people are crazy anarchists" route and ignore them. they're certainly in opposition to the new "mainstream" of bitcoin users being created, but it's impossible for what they're working on (darkwallet, darkmarkets) to not be relevant in the coming decades or whatever. blockchain tech is here to stay.
interesting times.
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[cF]TridenT   United States. Aug 04 2014 23:34. Posts 154
I think he really needs to work on his public speaking if he wants to be the face of this movement. Way too many "ums" and "likes" for me to take him seriously. His logic is sound but his way of presenting the information just makes it hard for me to want to learn more though I can't doubt his passion.
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NewbSaibot   United States. Aug 06 2014 00:42. Posts 4943