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Title: [2017-04-01]One man’s journey from anarchist bitcoin coder to anti-ISIS rebel Post by: peter0425 on April 01, 2017, 06:47:03 PM One man’s journey from anarchist bitcoin coder to anti-ISIS rebel
In 2015, Amir Taaki, an Iranian-British coder notorious in the politically-loaded cryptography software and bitcoin, found himself holding an AK-47 in Syria fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish rebels. Taaki had for years preached a crypto-anarchist revolution online. But then he found there was a very real revolution occurring in Syria. In this timeline, we explore how Taaki went from coding bitcoins to firing bullets. https://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/World/5825/35575/from-bitcoin-entrepreneur-to-anti-isis-fighter-in-syria Title: Re: [2017-04-01]One man’s journey from anarchist bitcoin coder to anti-ISIS rebel Post by: TraderTimm on April 02, 2017, 03:17:48 PM Yeah, we know about this LARPing pseudo-revolutionary, kthx.
Word is he's back in the UK since he couldn't cut it as an actual participant. Big surprise, eh? |