http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22152213

"Who would have thought one of the tech wizards behind a global
currency would live in a squat?"

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/139

gift wrapping bitcoin into a politically correct package.

http://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-for-press

1. a suit
2. most law abiding person ever
3. shiny apple mac user working for google
4. some random woman i've never heard of
5. from his self-promotion website http://tracemayer.net
"He generally deals with high-net worth individuals."

they don't want "extreme anarchists".

btw you'll love this:

http://www.demotix.com/photo/1956018/hundreds-attend-anti-thatcher-party-trafalgar-square-london&popup=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=AlwZhI3mQBs#t=56s

the police were blocking the wall so we jumped over them

On 09/04/13 00:54, Mike Gogulski wrote:
> Hey Amir,
>
> I'm not suggesting putting on a fake act, or moderating or dumbing
> down your message at all.
>
> What I do suggest is that you can make your communication vastly
> more effective by not alienating significant chunks of your
> audience -- including an ex-gf of mine, who wrote be saying just
> that. These are simple things to do, really: when you find you're
> speaking at the same time as another guest, stop and wait for the
> moderator's cue; don't make the same point twice in the same
> appearance; don't interrupt other guests.
>
> I actually loved how you started the whole thing off. She asked a
> fairly "blah" question and you came out like wildfire proclaiming
> the second coming, that was brilliant, and the technique of
> getting your own message in despite not being asked for some given
> response is a well known one. To add to the short list above, there
> was an instance in which you answered a different question to the
> one asked, without addressing the original question at all.
>
> If you're reading me as thinking you should take some of your
> heart out of it, not at all. You've got a great heart, and if I
> feel can lend some assistance to connecting yours with the hearts
> of others (especially via mass media), I feel obliged to give it a
> try.
>
> Peace, Mike
>
> On 04/08/2013 06:14 PM, Amir Taaki wrote:
>> 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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