Forget about this car crash interview and Amir talking about five years olds in Iran setting up gambling sites, there is a greater meme..
Amir is passionate, a great guy and has allot to offer the bitcoin community. But this is simply a MSM set up. This is a typical British MSM tactic - "build them up then smash them down"
Amir's profile is tainted by the whole Intersango situation. This will be used against him in the future. The message will be, "look at that guy he is bitcoin and look at what he has done." - Even if he is completely innocent, he needs to fix the Intersango situation before is goes on MSM and speaks to the likes of Huw Edwards.
We love you Amir but you are not the right person at this stage to speak to the MSM about Bitcoin.
We don't know what happened in the Intersango situation, while it's easy to say that he should've seen what was coming, and seen what happened, and been able to work against it and help the customers, sometimes people just get fucked over by other people and are left as scapegoats in the public eye.
This is not a defense of him - I'm just saying. I could've been part of a company, for example hired as a PR representative and genuinely believing in the company, and everything just runs smoothly for a couple of years, and then things starts to go sour, and then the CEO vanishes with a few millions and makes himself inaccessible, and I would be left with a shitstorm and people accusing me of the fact that I should've known about the shady dealings of this company. Now, a lot of people would've smelled the misdoings at a very early stage, and then either tried to change it or left the business altogether, but there are people who don't have these antennas, and that are easily fooled and can be used as scapegoats.
Still not a defense for Amir, just putting out the possibility as an argument against the accusations. And ofcourse his image is tarnished by that situation, as people lost a whole lot of money.
