{"id":236458,"date":"2026-10-06T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=236458"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:07:23","slug":"bitcoin-privacy-legend-amir-taaki-deported-from-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=236458","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Privacy Legend Amir Taaki Deported From Singapore\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

Bitcoin Privacy Legend Amir Taaki Deported From Singapore\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Crypto-anarchist, former Bitcoin Core contributor and cypherpunk legend Amir Taaki<\/a> is in trouble again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Writing on X Tuesday, the developer said<\/a> that he was questioned by Singaporean police before being deported from the country about \u201cwhat I work on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

British-Iranian programmer Taaki, who was one of the first Bitcoin contributors, claims he has been in trouble with certain countries since spending time fighting with the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units in Syria years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Just got questioned for 6 hours by glow police then deported from Singapore. Everything about what I work on.<\/p>\n

The extralegal glow regime charge my friends with fake things like money laundering. But they have nothing on me so they strike from the shadow. Weak coward tactics.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/l3SPA7lwWR<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Amir Taaki \u26db (@lunardragon420) October 6, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Taaki, who has made significant contributions to bitcoin privacy over the years, today is working on a crypto privacy protocol called DarkFi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe extralegal glow regime charge my friends with fake things like money laundering,\u201d wrote Taaki.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut they have nothing on me so they strike from the shadow. Weak coward tactics. Face me bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taaki added that in the past year alone, he has also been deported from Argentina and Mexico, and detained in Serbia and Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cEvery time it happens I ask why and they always tell me it\u2019s just a random check,\u201d adding that authorities never give reasons for why he is being detained or questioned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI am on a list but I am not able to find any info about which country has sanctioned me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taaki, who has contributed to Bitcoin Magazine, first faced trouble with British authorities after going to Syria to fight against the Islamic State group back in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said<\/a> in a 2017 BBC interview that he spent three and half months fighting with the Kurdish People\u2019s Protection Units before helping with community projects in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Privacy-focused Taaki, wrote the first implementations of CoinJoin<\/a> and stealth addresses, created libbitcoin, and founded the UK\u2019s first Bitcoin exchange.<\/p>\n

He also authored BIP 0001, which set up the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal process.<\/p>\n

This post Bitcoin Privacy Legend Amir Taaki Deported From Singapore\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Privacy Legend Amir Taaki Deported From Singapore\u00a0 Crypto-anarchist, former Bitcoin Core contributor and cypherpunk legend Amir Taaki is in trouble again.\u00a0 Writing on X Tuesday, the developer said that he was questioned by Singaporean police before being deported from the country about \u201cwhat I work on.\u201d\u00a0 British-Iranian programmer Taaki, who was one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":236459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}