Amir Taaki
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NarodismAs part of the forming Bitcoin community, Amir became an early Bitcoin developer, author of the BIP process, and the Libbitcoin implementation. With contributions to many free and open-source projects, he collaborated with Cody Wilson on launching Darkwallet and laid the foundations for OpenBazaar. Later, he spent nearly 2 years in the Rojava revolution, first for nearly 4 months fighting in the YPG and then working for the administration on economic projects. Today, Amir is focused on the DarkFi project, a network bringing anonymity to decentralized finance, and is still working towards building an agonistic revolutionary hacker movement.
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Panel discussion: Free software & free society: Examining a 40 year legacy
Join Amir Taaki, Jaromil, and Vecna as they examine the 40-year legacy of free software and its profound impact on society. This engaging panel discusses how open-source principles have shaped digital freedoms and considers the challenges and future of a truly free digital world. (2024-11-13)
End of Empire and Rise of the Parallel Society
We stand at the precipice and the end of the empire. From this will emerge political strains vying to define the next emergent era. (2024-07-08)
DarkFi: Defining The Metaphysics of Markets
When we leverage crypto, we are tapping into cosmic energy to lend us strength in our struggle for freedom. As governments wage war on crypto markets, we are forced to reach deep into our wellspring of wisdom, and summon the most powerful spirits from deep within nature. (2024-07-08)
The Economics of Free Software
Free Software has been wildly successful, but it is also heavily infiltrated and captured by hostile predatory corporations. The biggest issue facing the movement has been the lack of funding. Computing itself which once was about interlinking systems has started looking into where users are trapped on spying devices slaves to content delivered by "the cloud". (2024-07-08)
Livestream Interview with Amir Taaki
Amir Taaki 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. Forbes listed Taaki in their 30 Under 30 listing of 2014. (2023-08-08)
Fireside chat: The prehistory of Ethereum and proto-network states
The seeds for Ethereum were planted in Calafou, an eco-industrial (2023-08-08)
Lunarpunk panel discussion @ HCPP22
Not everyone sees cryptocurrencies as a powerful liberalising tool that is unparalleled in our society. A tool that erodes the authoritarian paradigm of states and creates a new decentralised paradigm where the state no longer has a place. (2023-01-22)
Panel: Bitcoin and Cypherpunk vision
Bitcoin emerged as a cypherpunk technology, and the community of cryptoanarchists formed naturally around it. Coming from these roots, Bitcoin became probably their most influential invention. But with years passing, after many waves of adoption and fluctuations in the community, the echo of cypherpunks in Bitcoin is becoming less important. With these ideals lost, where is Bitcoin heading today? .. (2022-08-13)
Bitcoin ideologies and narratives late 2010 onwards
As part of the forming Bitcoin community, Amir Taaki became an early Bitcoin developer, author of the BIP process, and the Libbitcoin implementation. With contributions to many free and open-source projects, he collaborated with Cody Wilson on launching Darkwallet and laid the foundations for OpenBazaar. Later, he spent nearly 2 years in the Rojava revolution, first for nearly 4 months fighting in.. (2022-08-07)
Closing Panel: Impact Of Cryptoanarchy And Decentralization To Our Future
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Rojava: Call For A Revolutionary Hacker Movement And The Study Of Polytechnics
We are a revolutionary organization following the ideology of apoism in Rojava, North Syria. Global power is breaking up, and new groups are emerging in the struggle for power around the world. We are the technical arm of the democratic confederalist ideological movement. At one time hackers believed they could use the power of the internet and software to shape the world. Leaders emerged that man.. (2017-12-10)
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