DarkFi, a privacy-conscious crypto project started by early Bitcoin developer Amir Taaki, has released an alpha version of its app. This marks the latest iteration of the community of coders, artists, and technologists who have been quietly tinkering in the shadows for years. Last fall, Taaki released a pre-development version of the app, which is basically a completely anonymous IRC (Internet Relay Chat) app. Taaki plans to grow it into a useful product garden, though. "It's going to be very quick to start scaling, adding, because we already have a lot of features, like anonymous DAOs, wallets, blockchains," Taki said in an interview with Block magazine. "All of these are already working, just not in the product. The messaging component of the platform can run on Tor and is completely peer-to-peer.