# What Wilson Heard

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

## Recent Posts

- [Progress report on the decentralized School](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/progress-report-on-the-decentralized-school)
- [A possible setup for a community-governed decentralized school](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/decentralized-education): The Wyoming DUNA may be a way to issue access tokens in the US without offending Gary Gensler
- [Freedom is humanity's default mode; coercion and the state are the exception](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/the-dawn-of-everything): CUSCO, Peru, July 17, 2024
- ["founder vs investor": A radically candid assessment of a relationship fraught with friction](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/founder-vs-investor-a-radically-candid-assessment-of-a-relationship-fraught-with-friction): Reading “founder vs investor”, it is difficult not to like Elizabeth Zalman for her plain outspokenness and radical candor about the inherent tensions between founders and investors.
- [“Cripto o Muerte”: The Crypto Currency Revolution in Cuba and Beyond](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/cripto-o-muerte-the-crypto-currency-revolution-in-cuba-and-beyond): MIAMI, Florida, March 28, 2024
- [Visiting Argentina the weekend before Milei was voted in](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/dont-lie-for-me-argentina): I was in Buenos Aires days before Milei was elected President and spoke to lots of friends there before they voted. 
- [Dumb vs. smart contracts: How blockchains could have prevented a court battle between Brad and Angelina over a French vineyard](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/dumb-vs-smart-contracts-how-blockchains-could-have-prevented-a-court-battle-between-brad-and-angelina-over-a-french-vineyard): Yesterday's Hollywood dream couple is in court (again) after Angelina allegedly sold her share in a French vineyard without Brad's consent. If only they had coded their agreement on blockchain.
- [DevCon VI: An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet of Ideas](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/ethereum-devconvi): Devcon VI, the sixth annual Ethereum Developer Conference, and the third I attended, took place from October 11 to October 14, 2022 in Bogotá, Colombia, after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Here are my notes.
- [From Violence to Volition: Alice and Bob about Bootstrapping New Nations on Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/from-violence-to-volition-bootstrapping-new-nations-on-blockchain): This post is written as a fictitious dialogue between Alice and Bob of early crypto fame, about if and how a new nation can be bootstrapped on blockchain.
- [Vitalik spotted naked on sanctioned luxury yacht! ](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/vitalik-spotted-naked-on-luxury-yacht): Or the birth of crypto gossip as a new genre
- [The age of living DAOngerously: Going free solo with DAOs](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/the-age-of-living-daongerously): DAOs have been foremost on our mind this summer. Staying unincorporated has obvious appeal, and we've even seen some projects dismantling their legal structure to go free solo. We share our take.
- [Bye to Sand Hill Road: An Ode and Epitaph to Venture Capital](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/bye-to-sand-hill-road): Venture Capital is as much part of tradfin as banks and other centralized finance. In this post, we're proposing a new model that preserves the best of VC with decentralized venture building.
- [Money Without Memory: Why Censorship Resistance and Financial Privacy Are Two Sides of the Same Coin](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/money-without-memory): For crypto currencies to become global, state-free money, we have to win the fight against increasing financial deanonymization, even if we have nothing to hide.
- [From Community to Country: A Strategy Towards The First Digital Nation on Blockchain](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/from-community-to-country): How to innovate the Nation State and build a Minimal Viable Product of a new country? In this post, we look at some practical steps to get to sovereignty the startup way.
- [Sovereignty on Blockchain: Towards Escape Velocity from the Nation State](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/sovereignty-on-blockchains): A tweet by Balaji Srinivasan prompted me to gather some thoughts on sovereignty on blockchains. In this post, we look at historic precedents for sovereign communities without physical territory, and how the future could have multiple overlapping and competing onchain and offchain jurisdictions.
- [Female Bach pianists](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/female-bach-pianists): Bach is of course the musical alphabet and whilst women are still way under-represented in math and coding, some of the best Bach pianists are female. Here is my top of the crop.
- [It’s Governance, Stupid! A School for the Study of Decentralized Governance](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/a-school-for-the-study-of-decentralized-governance-models): I am writing this on my return from the World Economic Forum in Davos last week.
- [Chopin in Dubai: Or How to Go from Defying to Defining](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/chopin-in-dubai-or-how-to-go-from-defying-to-defining): Last week, I was invited to speak at the Alternative Asset Management Summit in Dubai to talk about crypto assets as a new asset class in investing.
- [Blockchains on Planes](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/the-trust-machine): The Air Canada flight into San Francisco had a documentary on blockchains I hadn’t come across before, produced by Alex Winter.
- [Surveillance Capitalism: Leading to Fascism 2.0 or a Privacy Revolt?](https://paragraph.com/@hanverstraete.eth/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism): I finished reading Surveillance Capitalism, which I had been carrying with me since I picked it up last month at Books, Inc. in Mountain View, ironically the home of Google.

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