[2016-06-04] Misfit Bitcoin Developer Allegedly Works With the Rojava Plan

[sirohige]

Amir Taaki is considered a misfit when it comes to the Bitcoin community due to his strong beliefs in left-anarchism and his critical opinions against the growing industry. He is very well known for starting the project Dark Wallet with the help of Cody Wilson founder of Defense Distributed. Taaki was the original creator of Bitcoin BIP proposals, and the first one was a description of the GitHub plan which is a request to make changes to the code. Taaki also created the bitcoin protocol named libbitcoin, and worked on the bitcoin client Electrum among many other projects within the cryptocurrency community. In 2014 Taaki was one of the top 30 Forbes entrepreneurs named that year but soon after he left the Bitcoin community and seemed to want nothing to do with it. Taaki told Bitcoin Magazine journalist Aaron van Wirdum in October of 2014:

“Well, a lot of people within the Bitcoin-community care about mass adoption way too much. They want to reach it at any and all cost. It doesn’t matter to them how much compromise we need to make, because they think Bitcoin will hit some critical point where – BAM – everything is revolutionized. This kind of quick fix mentality is very easy for people to grasp, but is not based around real social change. It’s an illusion.”
http://www.livebitcoinnews.com/misfit-bitcoin-developer-allegedly-works-with-the-rojava-plan/

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[TraderTimm]

How funny that an anarcho-squatter hasn't really done much lately with his projects. Perhaps instead of railing against the world at large, he might have a long introspective look at why his many false starts have failed to materialize the changes he wanted. Its easy to be a big-mouth and spew a bunch of buzzwords, its a bit harder to actually apply knowledge have some kind of appreciable impact on the world.

In other words, Amir may just have to "grow up" before he realizes that instant gratification isn't a real goal, which he ironically blames other people for being short-sighted about.

Personally, I've thought he has had good ideas, but they are undermined by his utter lack of relating to people around him. He comes off as a ranting nutter, most times.

[greyhawk]

Amir has a bad habit of abandoning things. You can't really count on any software he writes as he will eventually get bored of it and move on to something else and leave it in an unusable state. There is also all the crap that happened with intersango and bitcoinica. He's way too flaky to bring an idea to fruition.