While I was in Lisbon a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to meet in person and interview Amir Taaki (@Narodism), one of the first Bitcoin core developers and a part of the original team building Ethereum. For a long time Amir has been involved in left wing activism including volunteering in Rojava and is a big digital privacy advocate. While at Liscon, Amir also presented his latest project called DarkFi, an anonymous DeFi network.

During the interview we spoke about his thoughts on the current state of the left and crypto, why he believes anonymity to be fundamental to democratic organizing, and what DarkFi plans to achieve. You can also see his talk and demo of DarkFi at Liscon here.

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ICYMI I've written a book about, no surprise, blockchains through a left political framework! The title is Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It and is being published through Repeater Books, the publishing house started by Mark Fisher who’s work influenced me a lot in my thinking.

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