and this, amir taaki says, is what inspired him to go.he fighting and went on to develop local projects with the syrian kurds. we will build facilities to process collected waste, to make low—cost, highly efficient fertiliser. like this crowdfunding campaign which he says raised money and then built fertiliser factories to help syrian farmers grow more food. and bitcoin, he says, can help. they're trying to create a people's economy, by the people, for the people. to help establish a decentralised economy, you need decentralised money. this place is under embargo, so there's no way to move money in and out, so we have to actually create our own bitcoin economy here if we want to establish bitcoin as a currency. but keeping transactions secret has also led to warnings that bitcoin could be used to help money—laundering and organised terrorists. and when amir taaki returned to the uk, he found his activities had raised the suspicions of the authorities, which had a grave effect. they stopped the plane, and they arrested me and investigated