Yeah cool. Write anything you think to this list.
But at the end of the day, the real message comes from staying true to
yourself. Not putting on a fake act and dressing for others. I speak
from the heart.
I'm not a politician trying to win votes, I'm a hacker spreading our
culture and speaking directly to our guys. Our guys can see through
any acting and it stops me connecting to them.
On 07/04/13 22:10, Mike Gogulski wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>
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