Amir Taaki

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Biography

Early years

Amir Taaki was born 6 February 1988 in London, the eldest of three children of a Scottish-English[1] mother and an Iranian father who is a property developer. From an early age Taaki took an interest in computer technology, teaching himself computer programming.[2]

Free software

After briefly attending three British universities,[1] 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.[3]

In 2006, Taaki became heavily involved in Crystal Space development under the pseudonym of genjix.[4] He also developed a number of video games making use of free software, including the adventure game Crystal Core[5] and the futuristic racer game Ecksdee.[6] Taaki was also a participant in the Blender project Yo Frankie!.[7]

Taaki was a speaker at the 2007 Games Convention in Leipzig.

Bitcoin

In 2009 and 2010, Taaki made his living as a professional poker player.[2] His experience with online gambling attracted him to the bitcoin project.[8] He founded a UK bitcoin exchange called "Britcoin", which was succeeded in 2011 by a new British exchange called Intersango, in which he was a principal developer,[9] which was closed after their UK bank account was restricted following an investigation by Metro Bank.[10]

In April 2011, Taaki and Donald Norman established the Bitcoin Consultancy, a group focused on bitcoin project development.[11]

Taaki created the first full reimplementation of the bitcoin protocol named libbitcoin,[12] worked on the bitcoin client Electrum[13][14] and created other command line utilities around bitcoin and the network.[15] The bitcoin standardisation procedure (Bitcoin Improvement Proposals or BIPs) was started by Taaki.[16][17]

In 2014, together with Cody Wilson, he launched the Dark Wallet project after a crowdfunding run on IndieGoGo which raised over $50,000.[18][19][20] Taaki, along with other developers from Airbitz, Inc. (producers of a bitcoin business directory and mobile bitcoin wallet) created a prototype for a decentralised marketplace called "DarkMarket" in 2014, at a hackathon in Toronto,[21] which was forked into the OpenBazaar project.[22]

Activism

Taaki has been outspoken in favour of Internet activism such as Anonymous, likening them to modern day freedom-fighters.[23] A long-time contributor to free software, he advocates total data freedom.[11] Taaki has labelled censorship policies as being a wedge towards ever-increasing censorship.[23] He proposes a shift away from specialist thinking towards a creative society of generalist knowledge workers.[24]

Taaki is a speaker of Esperanto, which he promotes as an auxiliary country-neutral international language to preserve local languages. He writes that Esperanto serves to break down barriers and help the flow of media across cultural boundaries.[25]

Amir Taaki formerly lived in an anarchist squat in Barcelona, Spain.[26] He now resides in an anarchist squat in the former anti-G8 HQ building in London, England.[27][28]

Rojava

In 2015, Taaki went to Rojava (Syrian Kurdistan) to offer his skills to the revolution, and served the YPG military.[29] 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.

Early years

Amir Taaki was born 6 February 1988 in London, the eldest of three children of a Scottish-English[1] mother and an Iranian father who is a property developer. From an early age Taaki took an interest in computer technology, teaching himself computer programming.[2]


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Herrmann, Joshi (29 January 2014). "Silicon Roundabout's not for him: meet super-hacker, master coder and Bitcoin boy Amir Taaki in his Hackney squat". https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/silicon-roundabouts-not-for-him-meet-superhacker-master-coder-and-bitcoin-boy-amir-taaki-in-his-hackney-squat-9093228.html. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Speakers 2011," 11th International EPCA Summit, European Payments Consulting Association, www.epcaconference.com/ Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  3. ↑ SDL Collide, Sourceforge, sourceforge.net/
  4. ↑ "Blender & CrystalSpace" in Blender Conference 2006, Youtube.
  5. ↑ "Pablo Martin Moreno and Amir Taaki," Lua エラー: 内部エラー: インタープリターは終了コード 127 で終了しました。 Blender Conference 2006 Proceedings, www.blender.org/
  6. ↑ 2006 Crystal Space Conference Report, Crystal Space, www.crystalspace3d.org/
  7. ↑ Yo Frankie developer list, www.yofrankie.org/
  8. ↑ James Ball, "Bitcoins: how do they work?" The Guardian, 22 June 2011.
  9. ↑ "About Us: Personal Statements," Intersango, britcoin.co.uk
  10. ↑ "Intersango Status Update" bitcointalk.org.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin," Slashdot, 22 June 2011.
  12. ↑ "spesmilo/libbitcoin · GitHub". https://github.com/spesmilo/libbitcoin/.
  13. ↑ "Commits · spesmilo/electrum-server · GitHub". https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-server/commits/master?author=genjix.
  14. ↑ "Commits · spesmilo/electrum · GitHub". https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/commits/master?author=genjix.
  15. ↑ "subvertx command line utilities (proof of concept using libbitcoin)". bitcointalk.org. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50721.0.
  16. ↑ "Bitcoin Improvement Proposals". bitcoin.it. https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals&oldid=16862.
  17. ↑ "BIP 0001". bitcoin.it. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0001.
  18. ↑ Del Castillo, Michael (24 September 2013). "Dark Wallet: A Radical Way to Bitcoin". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/09/dark-wallet-bitcoin.html. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  19. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (31 October 2013). "Dark Wallet Aims To Be The Anarchist's Bitcoin App of Choice". Forbes Online. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/31/darkwallet-aims-to-be-the-anarchists-bitcoin-app-of-choice/. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  20. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (29 April 2014). "'Dark Wallet' Is About to Make Bitcoin Money Laundering Easier Than Ever". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2014/04/dark-wallet/. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  21. ↑ "DarkMarket Team Win Toronto Bitcoin Expo Hackathon". CoinDesk. http://www.coindesk.com/airbitz-wins-toronto-bitcoin-expo-hackathon-darkmarket/.
  22. ↑ Greenberg, Andy (24 April 2014). "Inside the 'DarkMarket' Prototype, a Silk Road the FBI Can Never Seize". Wired. https://www.wired.com/2014/04/darkmarket. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 テンプレート:Cite av media
  24. ↑ "N-1". n-1.cc. https://n-1.cc/pg/blog/read/44422/jb.
  25. ↑ n-1.cc Lua エラー: 内部エラー: インタープリターは終了コード 127 で終了しました。 Esperanto page
  26. ↑ "Amir Taaki and the Dark Wallet". IHB. https://ihb.io/2014-04-15/news/amir-taaki-dark-wallet-4742.
  27. ↑ Siddique, Haroon (11 June 2013). "G8: riot police enter central London building occupied by protesters". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/11/g8-riot-police-building-protesters. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  28. ↑ Copestake, Jen (19 September 2014). "Hiding currency in the Dark Wallet". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29283124. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  29. ↑ https://www.wired.com/2017/03/anarchist-bitcoin-coder-found-fighting-isis-syria/

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