The Dark Wallet showdown In 2013, Cody Wilson (2nd Amendment activist) and Amir Taaki (British-Iranian hacker) collaborated on Dark Wallet-a Bitcoin tool designed to anonymize transactions and evade government surveillance. Their Indiegogo campaign raised $50,000 within days, drawing immediate scrutiny from FinCEN, the IRS, and the DOJ. The project’s crowdfunding video explicitly framed Dark Wallet as a tool for money laundering, with Taaki declaring it would "break the financial blockade" against groups like Hamas and ISIS.