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What Wilson Heard

Introducing "What Wilson Heard"

My new blog of sorts to hear myself think as recidivist founder.

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Progress report on the decentralized School

A possible setup for a community-governed decentralized school

Participalism, Inc.

Sovereignty on Blockchain: Towards Escape Velocity from the Nation State

From Community to Country: A Strategy Towards The First Digital Nation on Blockchain

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What Wilson Heard

Introducing "What Wilson Heard"

My new blog of sorts to hear myself think as recidivist founder.

Most popular by What Wilson Heard

Progress report on the decentralized School

A possible setup for a community-governed decentralized school

Participalism, Inc.

Sovereignty on Blockchain: Towards Escape Velocity from the Nation State

From Community to Country: A Strategy Towards The First Digital Nation on Blockchain

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What Wilson Heard

A blog by recidivist founder Han Verstraete with ideas and thoughts how to author your life in Web3 and beyond.

What Wilson Heard

A blog by recidivist founder Han Verstraete with ideas and thoughts how to author your life in Web3 and beyond.

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Money Without Memory: Why Censorship Resistance and Financial Privacy Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

For crypto currencies to become global, state-free money, we have to win the fight against increasing financial de-anonymization, even if we have nothing to hide.

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Money Without Memory: Why Censorship Resistance and Financial Privacy Are Two Sides of the Same Coin

For crypto currencies to become global, state-free money, we have to win the fight against increasing financial de-anonymization, even if we have nothing to hide.

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The age of living DAOngerously: Going free solo with DAOs

Since the early days, going back to some of Vitalik’s and his crypto forebears’ conceptual posts on DAOs, the idea of a decentralized, automated organization has held wide appeal within the community. In this post, we examine the key issues standing in the way of their wider adoption.Do a SatoshiAs originally conceived, a DAO was essentially “committed code” on a decentralized ledger, deployed in an unstoppable way, free of human interference. In this narrow sense, there are arguably only a f...

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The age of living DAOngerously: Going free solo with DAOs

Since the early days, going back to some of Vitalik’s and his crypto forebears’ conceptual posts on DAOs, the idea of a decentralized, automated organization has held wide appeal within the community. In this post, we examine the key issues standing in the way of their wider adoption.Do a SatoshiAs originally conceived, a DAO was essentially “committed code” on a decentralized ledger, deployed in an unstoppable way, free of human interference. In this narrow sense, there are arguably only a f...

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Vitalik spotted naked on sanctioned luxury yacht!

Lady Roosevelt apocryphally said that “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” but she reportedly relished the occasional good gossip herself.Nothing like some good old gossPresumably, Laura Shin’s recent book The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze will have been read by many a great mind who stood at the cradle of Ethereum or who have joined the community since. However it contributes disappoin...

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Vitalik spotted naked on sanctioned luxury yacht!

Lady Roosevelt apocryphally said that “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” but she reportedly relished the occasional good gossip herself.Nothing like some good old gossPresumably, Laura Shin’s recent book The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze will have been read by many a great mind who stood at the cradle of Ethereum or who have joined the community since. However it contributes disappoin...

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Visiting Argentina the weekend before Milei was voted in

View to the English Clock Tower from the Plaza San Martín, Buenos Aires, on my evening stroll in early November 2023 (Source: own archive).I arrived Buenos Aires from Canada on Wednesday 8 November 2023 via São Paulo, the time of year when the northern hemisphere turns towards winter but the south is in full spring. Buenos Aires is a city I know well and love deeply from a previous live, back in the late '90s when I went to learn Spanish there and visited friends I studied with in London. I'v...

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Visiting Argentina the weekend before Milei was voted in

View to the English Clock Tower from the Plaza San Martín, Buenos Aires, on my evening stroll in early November 2023 (Source: own archive).I arrived Buenos Aires from Canada on Wednesday 8 November 2023 via São Paulo, the time of year when the northern hemisphere turns towards winter but the south is in full spring. Buenos Aires is a city I know well and love deeply from a previous live, back in the late '90s when I went to learn Spanish there and visited friends I studied with in London. I'v...

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“Cripto o Muerte”: The Crypto Currency Revolution in Cuba and Beyond

MIAMI, Florida, March 28, 2024 - I am in Miami, only 90 nautical miles from Havana, Cuba. I don’t have any romanticism about Cuba and no urge to visit. It is a dirt poor country where a repressive authoritarian regime starves its people from the most basic necessities, a Soviet Caribbean with empty shelves in government stores and day-long queues for a piece of protein, which on most days of the week is not available. A friend in London recently sent me a pic of his son entering Eton donned i...

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“Cripto o Muerte”: The Crypto Currency Revolution in Cuba and Beyond

MIAMI, Florida, March 28, 2024 - I am in Miami, only 90 nautical miles from Havana, Cuba. I don’t have any romanticism about Cuba and no urge to visit. It is a dirt poor country where a repressive authoritarian regime starves its people from the most basic necessities, a Soviet Caribbean with empty shelves in government stores and day-long queues for a piece of protein, which on most days of the week is not available. A friend in London recently sent me a pic of his son entering Eton donned i...