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【Early Bitcoin contributor Amir Taaki says he was deported after questioning in Singapore】

Early Bitcoin contributor and cypherpunk Amir Taaki said on X that he was questioned by Singaporean police about “the work I do”6 hours before being deported. The British-Iranian programmer said that he has repeatedly run into trouble with certain countries since traveling to Syria years ago to fight alongside the People's Protection Units. Taaki said that in the past 1 years alone, he was also deported by Argentina and Mexico and detained in Serbia and Japan. He said that whenever this happens, he asks for the reason, but authorities always say it is merely a random check and never provide a specific reason for the detention or questioning. “I’m on a list, but I can’t find any information about which country is sanctioning me.” Taaki has long focused on Bitcoin privacy, writing the first implementations of CoinJoin and stealth addresses, creating libbitcoin, founding the United Kingdom’s first Bitcoin exchange, and writing BIP 0001 which established the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal process. He is currently developing the cryptographic privacy protocol DarkFi。