"What it Took to Free Julian!"

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Between 2022 -2024 - Wau Holland “Black Box”

  • No updates received
  • sharing of information likely to affect Julian Assange’s ongoing legal case
  • however outgoings shown on the WH etherscan

After Julian’s release

  • Wau Holland provided a Preliminary Transparency Report
  • confusion by media re the outgoings by Wau Holland with the AssangeDAO treasury (no outgoings)
  • by the time WH received funds in March 2022 - the value of ETH had begun to fall. WH financial strategy to be questioned.
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Next slide - Wau Holland response to Silke Noa’s enquiries - received by Silke in August 2024

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Unclear which third parties excluded - Julian, Pak, the DAO?

Silke says she was querying for feedback to the DAO.

In October 2024, the Wau Holland remaining balance was

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16/ Wau Holland took a “RESERVE” or administrative fee in May 2022 as follows (approx. 2 million):

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This account now holds $797.7K. The fee so far has been spent on the following:

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What treasury management advice/strategy using this admin fee - unknown

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17/ Silke queries the usage of the 5% admin fee and notes Wau Holland financial management. (Presumably she’s pointing to the type of financial management employed re the donation given the simultaneous drop of the wider ETH market value)

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Continued outflows after Julian freed.

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Lawyers invoices were submitted until August 2024
September invoices, unexplained.

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19/ FUTURE OF THE DAO

  • 500K in Assange DAO Treasury
  • Amir Taaki proposal
  • Cyperhpunk proposals in line with Assange legacy
  • Liquidate the treasury
  • Restructure the DAO Governance with new 2024 technologies
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20/ First question from audience related to KYC (Know Your Customer Information)

Legal issue with the DAO sending monies direct from DAO to Wau Holland - as contributors are anon.

Second question related to tornado cash - another query about anonymity

Third question - if the maxibid had been rejected - the DAO would have donated just above the second bid (normal practice), the Justice token would have been issued - donators could have been refunded and the rest used to form a DAO treasury.

Fourth - not a question from the audience but some relevant background by an audience participant. Wau Holland have their reasons for being private. One Board member has been targetted. A WL lawyer- Garzon- had his office broken into. For two decades, Wau Holland have been impacted because of their dealings with the Assange case.

Fifth question - would the DAO consider selling the NFT? Its on the market on OpenSea. However it requires manual updates.

FINISH.

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Thanks for transcribing so much of it to the forum, PT.

Worth adding that Silke said she was unsure of this (the NFT update process).

Personally, I think if anything it might have applied to the censored.art website and not the NFT itself.