"What it Took to Free Julian!"

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This could be an interesting panel discussion to see Stella Gabriel John open up about the fight to free Julian. Perhaps the DAO’s financial assistance survival package will be covered.

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Hope there will be a transcript forthcoming -

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New - AIDC 2025

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Any recordings of those events?

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The presentation begins with an intro - you can watch that bit yourself. But most are familiar with all of that here.

  • US Lawyers accepted ETH, other lawyers FIAT currency only.

  • During the raise - bot armies, threats and disagreements

  • Gnosis safe and Snapshot Governance established

  • PAK enforced a 10 day set-up, refused rescheduling the auction

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  • discovered that the Juicebox funding cycle automatically renewed
  • during the funding cycle, tokens cannot be issued.
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  • Assange DAO received Juicebox tokens, then swapped those for ETH
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Silke explains that the NFT clock asset requires a manual update daily by PAK’s crew - at the time of her forum talk the clock had not received an adjustment for 19 days so it was inaccurate.

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6/ The NFT clock now counts forward to reflect JAs days of freedom.

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7/ How the funds were spent by Wau Holland to free Julian.

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Note: These are not all confirmed. - Silke Noa

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The maxibid controversy arose during the auction period.

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The PRO maxibid argument included:

  • clearly communicated the raise was a donation
  • Discord was unmanageable and indicative of its vulnerability to state influence (bot armies and threats received)
  • a small window was presented to transfer the funds raised into the safe and reliable Wau Holland
  • nobody knew if 54 million would be adequate to free Julian - hence maxbid now
  • Wau Holland had a long history safeguarding Julian/Wikileaks funding

Anti- maxibid argument

  • multi -sigs who were promaxibid left
  • Wau Holland - a Foundation - is not completely transparent (German tax office dealings)
  • 10000 holders - many with technical capability, not bureaucrats, means of freeing JA by a DAO, potentially wider ranging
  • NFT was too expensive and no reason to enforce DAO into a maxibid
  • a missed opportunity to showcase what a DAO could have achieved
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10/ Next slide

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The DAO governance structure allows for a Consensus Unit veto.
The multisig had 2 in favour of the maxi bid and 2 against. Ultimately the maxibid won. Next slide -

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Over the past two years the DAO has been affected by

  • bidding strategy
  • infrastructure attacks
  • personal attacks - one member hospitalised for months due to unknown entity
  • disrepute due to anons