my_work.md

Related things I've done in roughly chronological order. Before all this was a software architect for 10+ years with programming awards from Google, Salesforce and Top Coder and degrees from Brown and Penn (https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/joel-dietz) (https://developer.salesforce.com/index.php?title=Joel_Dietz_Success_Story&oldid=43428)(http://linkedin.com/joel.a.dietz)

Cryptoeconomics

• top cited piece on Google Scholar on Cryptoeconomics (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=cryptoeconomic&btnG=)

EtherCasts

• Early dev education around Ethereum smart contracts

• created first blockchain marriage contract and other sample dapps

• ~3700 subscribers (https://www.youtube.com/user/EtherCasts)

Ethereum SF

• co-founded the Ethereum SF and Silicon Valley meetups and helped organize the first ~20 meetups (~4700 people on Meetup)

• served as office manager for the Silicon Valley Ethereum office when it existed

Decentralized Autonomous Society

• Along with mutiple Ethereum Foundation employees and other blockchain enthusiasts created the first group dedicated to dicussing decentralized governance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iubsqehXUoY)

• ~35 real life meetups including talks by Ralph Merkle, etc

• ~5200 members on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/579940655425355/) ~1200 meetup members

Holon

• Created first and only continuously operating "holon" , a co-living space based on holonic principles (https://techcrunch.com/video/love-nests-co-living-space-helps-birds-fly/) (now: www.meta-villa.com) which has run hundreds of events

• Contributed to the intellectual discourses on these topics by writing the first distributed governance and reputation system whitepapers in 2014

• Also periodicially involved in the Platform Cooperativism movement

Swarm 1.0

• Created first real world tokenization platform including its own blockchain based governance system

• Included a lightwallet implementation supporting Bitcoin and Counterparty based colored coins

• Conducted first vote where a major community decision was made via on a blockchain

• Conducted first election where a non-profit foundation elected its board via a blockchain vote

• Approximately ~1000 participants

Metamask

• attended DevCon 0 and with Martin Becze wrote the first ever accepted DevGrants grant for "Vapor," a javascript light client based via a browser extension

• Got a YCombinator interview for this project ( https://youtu.be/p135D4Tv1mM )

• Consensys later internalized Vapor and renamed it MetaMask

• Now has 1.3M users

Crypto Gifting

• Ran a holiday charity drive encouraging prominent crypto people to donate to charity (https://sites.google.com/view/crypto-gifting-org )

Swarm Fund

• Advised this further iteration of Swarm

• created distributed masternode system in which masternode holders elect a council of 5 members who operate the organization (~393 Masternodes) (https://masternodes.swarm.fund/#/)

• organization later signed major partnerships with Siemens, etc and did a few token issuances (art token, masternode fund, etc)

BTG Pactual / Tezos

• worked with BTG Pactual team to introduce $1B of digital assets

• Introduced BTG Pactual and Tezos teams and advised creation of $10mm real estate asset

Sciath

• ran deep research program on unique data sources that can be used for crypto trading

• identified high value strategies and deployed behind an operational hedge fund

Crypto Masters

• recruited leading professors teaching technology, trading, and digital assets and packaged as online video education