14 Facts About Amir Taaki

Amir Taaki is a British-Iranian anarchist revolutionary, hacktivist, and programmer who is known for his leading role in the Bitcoin project, and for pioneering many open source projects.

Amir Taaki was born 6 February 1988 in London, the eldest of three children of a Scottish-English mother and an Iranian father who is a property developer.

From an early age Amir Taaki took an interest in computer technology, teaching himself computer programming.

Amir Taaki assisted in the creation of SDL Collide, an extension of Simple DirectMedia Layer, an open source library used by video game developers.

In 2009 and 2010, Amir Taaki made his living as a professional poker player.

Amir Taaki founded the first UK Bitcoin exchange, "Britcoin", which was succeeded in 2011 by a new British exchange called Intersango, in which he was a principal developer.

In 2012, Amir Taaki organized the first Bitcoin conference in London.

In 2015, Amir Taaki went to Rojava to offer his skills to the revolution and served the YPG military.

Amir Taaki had no training but spent three and a half months in the YPG military fighting on the front.

Amir Taaki was then discharged and worked in the civil society for over a year on various projects for Rojava's economics committee.

In February 2018, Amir Taaki created a group in Catalonia dedicated to leveraging blockchain technology to help national liberation causes such as the Catalan independence movement.

In 2023, Politico reported that Amir Taaki was working on an anarchist project called DarkFi that aimed to allow people to form organizations that collectively raise and distribute money in complete secrecy.

Amir Taaki appears in the Bitcoin documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, released in October 2024.

Amir Taaki has publicly disagreed with the film's theory of Peter Todd as Satoshi Nakamoto.