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.
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