Bitcoin entrepreneur Amir Taaki quizzed over fighting in Syria

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Quote from: santaclaws on March 30, 2017, 03:27:36 PM

If I were the police I would also be suspicious of someone in Bitcoin and going to Syria as well. The authorities see BTC as a tool for money laundering and going to Syria now.. well no one does that unless they are joining ISIS. So the TV tells us..

Till now, there has been only one instance of Bitcoin being used to fund the ISIS in Syria and Iraq (that was by some Muslim guy from the United States, who was arrested). The ISIS seems to be having other payment gateways to get funds, such as Qiwipay.

It seems to me that no matter what payment system. If we assume that there will be no payment systems that ISIL will be funded in cash. Before when there was bitcoin and other payment systems in the world was not terrorism?

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Quote from: santaclaws on March 30, 2017, 03:27:36 PM

If I were the police I would also be suspicious of someone in Bitcoin and going to Syria as well. The authorities see BTC as a tool for money laundering and going to Syria now.. well no one does that unless they are joining ISIS. So the TV tells us..

Till now, there has been only one instance of Bitcoin being used to fund the ISIS in Syria and Iraq (that was by some Muslim guy from the United States, who was arrested). The ISIS seems to be having other payment gateways to get funds, such as Qiwipay.

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Quote from: santaclaws on March 30, 2017, 03:27:36 PM

If I were the police I would also be suspicious of someone in Bitcoin and going to Syria as well. The authorities see BTC as a tool for money laundering and going to Syria now.. well no one does that unless they are joining ISIS. So the TV tells us..

Since bitcoin very much hinders some governments in terms of taxation and other issues, then with the slightest problems, they can look for opportunities to work on bitcoin. And communication with ISIS can be a good reason.

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If I were the police I would also be suspicious of someone in Bitcoin and going to Syria as well. The authorities see BTC as a tool for money laundering and going to Syria now.. well no one does that unless they are joining ISIS. So the TV tells us..

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Quote from: yoseph on March 30, 2017, 01:49:49 PM

I am sure the Police are skeptical whether he really fought against the Islamic State or whether he fought for them. By putting him on bail for such a long time is against his fundamental human rights.

If someone will benefit from one or the other side of the coin of this incident, then this person may be accused or acquitted without any consequences. But as they say, there is no smoke without fire. If they say, it means that it was somewhere.

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I am sure the Police are skeptical whether he really fought against the Islamic State or whether he fought for them. By putting him on bail for such a long time is against his fundamental human rights.

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War is always bad, and when the war to die such people it is very bad for the whole earth. Amir Taaki is certainly not killed, but how many like him are killed in wars. In Ukraine for example were killed defending the homeland of the Russian invasion, the soloist of the Paris national Opera Vasily Slipak. How many such heroes are killed in wars around the world!

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Quote from: hilariousandco on March 30, 2017, 04:26:57 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on March 30, 2017, 04:14:28 AM

This is pure rubbish! This guy was fighting for the secular YPG (the Kurdish militia) and he was helping them to defeat the ISIS barbarians. More than 2,000 Brits have traveled to Syria, in order to join the ISIS. The government doesn't have any problem with that. But they are going ballistic after finding that a single guy dared to take on the ISIS.

What exactly is 'pure rubbish' because that's exactly what the article says:

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Mr Taaki says he spent three and half months fighting with the Kurdish People's Protection Units [YPG] military group and experienced several battles against IS.

Or did you just not bother reading?

And the UKG would have arrested anyone fighting for ISIS on return and likely wouldn't have bailed them so hardly 'going ballistic'.

He was fighting AGAINST the ISIS.

Is this that difficult to comprehend? IMO, anyone fighting against the ISIS should be declared as the national hero of the United Kingdom. Instead of that, the government decided to prosecute this guy. And this is the reason why I used the word "rubbish".

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Quote from: hilariousandco on March 29, 2017, 12:10:45 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39417937

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A London-based software developer and "hacker" has said he is under police investigation after going to Syria to fight against the Islamic State group.

Amir Taaki, 29, a leading developer of online currency Bitcoin, was once named by Forbes as one of the most influential young people in technology.

Mr Taaki told the BBC he returned to the UK from Syria in 2016 and has spent the past 12 months on police bail

Lolwut? Is this the first anyone has heard of this? Was wondering what happened to this guy.

Damn. I was quite surprise to see this news about Taaki he just went AWOL and re-surfaces now with this?

Here's a thread I found in our forum looking for him.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/where-is-amir-taaki-1091258

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Quote from: Sithara007 on March 30, 2017, 04:14:28 AM

This is pure rubbish! This guy was fighting for the secular YPG (the Kurdish militia) and he was helping them to defeat the ISIS barbarians. More than 2,000 Brits have traveled to Syria, in order to join the ISIS. The government doesn't have any problem with that. But they are going ballistic after finding that a single guy dared to take on the ISIS.

What exactly is 'pure rubbish' because that's exactly what the article says:

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Mr Taaki says he spent three and half months fighting with the Kurdish People's Protection Units [YPG] military group and experienced several battles against IS.

Or did you just not bother reading?

And the UKG would have arrested anyone fighting for ISIS on return and likely wouldn't have bailed them so hardly 'going ballistic'.

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This is pure rubbish! This guy was fighting for the secular YPG (the Kurdish militia) and he was helping them to defeat the ISIS barbarians. More than 2,000 Brits have traveled to Syria, in order to join the ISIS. The government doesn't have any problem with that. But they are going ballistic after finding that a single guy dared to take on the ISIS.

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Quite frankly this is the first time I heard of the guy. I read an article on Wire about him just now. He seem to be a bit nutty. He should be thankful he got back alive. I wonder what his view on the forking would be.

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Maybe supervision was related to his work on PayPub? This is a bitcoin app that prevents leakage of documents, be it state secrets or corporate documents. Darkmarket is a prototype of the online market similar to silk road, which cannot be stopped in connection with its decentralized model. A technology that can have the most impact, is Dark wallet, an easy to use browser plugin that makes anonymous, secure bitcoin transactions. Ultimately, he hopes that people will be able to use the technology for the formation of self-governing communities. This may call into question the existence of States. He hopes that his and other people's technology "can give people the opportunity to work on a large scale without needing the courts, judges, police, officials, politicians, etc.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39417937

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A London-based software developer and "hacker" has said he is under police investigation after going to Syria to fight against the Islamic State group.

Amir Taaki, 29, a leading developer of online currency Bitcoin, was once named by Forbes as one of the most influential young people in technology.

Mr Taaki told the BBC he returned to the UK from Syria in 2016 and has spent the past 12 months on police bail

Lolwut? Is this the first anyone has heard of this? Was wondering what happened to this guy.

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