Amir, you hit a lot of the key points and hit them very well during the
segment. For that, congrats and thanks.

But I gotta complain, too. If I had to score your performance on the
show, I'd give you an A or A- for content, and an F for delivery and
presentation. You (and by extension us, bitcoin, the whole freakin'
planet, &c) would benefit massively from some coaching by folks who have
"done media" before, especially in the political sphere, which is where
you're now operating.

I hope you'll take this from me in the spirit I mean it. I'm happy to
provide some of that coaching myself (and explain the reasoning behind
it), and I think I can get a couple other people interested in donating
a few hours to the work as well.

Peace,
Mike

On 04/06/2013 01:26 AM, Amir Taaki wrote:
> Thanks. There is a Bitcoin press wave going on now. Been having TV crews
> here all week at the squat. It's important to show good things coming
> out of squats to the world.
>
> It's a victory. I'm at the end of the hacker spectrum. Even in hacker
> circles I'm an extremist. They've put me right in the centre of mainstream.
>
> When things like this happen, you know our culture has made it.
>
>
> http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/04/20134572639241668.html
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/silk-road-online-drug-marketplace
>
> http://news.sky.com/story/1071652/cyber-currency-surge-amid-eurozone-crisis
>
> Lots more print stuff and more coming too.
>
> On 04/04/13 19:56, Jaromil wrote:
>> Dear comrades, Salam aleikum.
>>
>> I'm writing you from a balcony above the noisy streets of Cairo a few
>> hundred meters away from the square where 5 years ago, on the 6 of
>> april, the so called Arab Spring started boiling what would become the
>> revolution that took over the regime of Mubarak in Egypt.
>>
>> Today I've entered my room in a demure and rather anonymous building
>> downtown to switch on the TV on Al-Jazeera international right on time
>> to see, to my surprise, Amir showing off his brand new furry mohawk in
>> an episode dedicated to Bitcoin. Wonderful! it just felt like in a
>> movie, close to surrealism, to be listening to it right from here, at
>> the heart of the Egyptian revolutionary movement.
>>
>> What a hit! to see my bro' carrying his passionate message with such
>> impetus and so well, on such an important worldwide channel. Clearly he
>> is not mistaken when he states that we are facing a global movement of
>> change, riding its wave.
>>
>> Just two days ago I was presenting Bitcoin to an interested but still
>> small audience here in Cairo, among them some hackers and students and
>> random Google fans, who are starting to understand what's next. Its all
>> happening so fast now, tight in the days in which Wikileaks is releasing
>> the files on the offshore sociopathic finance oligarcs, right in the
>> days preparing the 5 years anniversary of the revolution that shook
>> north Africa, a culture so far from ours, yet so close in idealism I
>> belive.
>>
>> So this is a heads up from Cairo and an idealist call: lets think about
>> using the wealth we are rising with Bitcoin not just to grow it in our
>> pockets, but to help and support the revolutionary movement of the Arab
>> Spring. I'll be meeting people around here in the next days and
>> conspiring about visions and possibilities. If you like, since my funds
>> are rather limited, please contact me privately if you are intentioned
>> to donate some Bitcoins to the cause, since I'd like to share some to
>> the good people here, see if we can organize some international meeting
>> soon and what not.
>>
>> Moreover, it will be my pleasure to soon share with you an academic
>> article that I've recently written also as part of my Ph.D. thesis,
>> about the social and political background of Bitcoin, its history and
>> its possible future. Let's keep in touch, so far so close, for our
>> planetary coevolution.
>>
>> ciao
>>
>