Metamask: Joel Dietz on Early Ethereum and Unseen Worlds - a podcast by Al Bawaba Business

Joel Dietz has worked on Ethereum from the very beginning, during a time when even giant incubators like the famous YCombinator appeared to have trouble predicting the utility of a 'smart contract.'

An MIT Connection Science Fellow, Joel is described by MIT as a “serial entrepreneur and intellectual historian who helped found a number of initiatives in the cryptocurrency space, including Ethereum, MetaMask, the first smart contract educational channel, and the first academic work on crypto-economics.”

Metamask will be familiar to anyone who has purchased Eth, or activated an account on Decentraland, an NFT multiverse worth between 800 million and 1.4 billion U.S. dollars as of September 2021.

This episode is a high-level introduction to the past and future of Web3. Because Joel is based here in Dubai, it also gives a sense of how rapidly the UAE tech scene is evolving. How can the UAE level-up and lean-in to the virtual markets of tomorrow? And when will the best poets, and not just the best coders, come here to chill?

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