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Ethereum TV is open: explore 25,000+ talks
Search, follow and watch 25,000+ Ethereum talks from more than 12,000 speakers and around 600 events. Here's where to start.
By Ethereum TV · · 6 min read
If you're reading this, there's a good chance Ethereum has changed your life in some way.
Maybe it changed what you work on, where you live, or the people you spend your days with. Maybe someone explaining an idea on a stage opened a door in your mind, and you walked through it. You learned something you couldn't stop thinking about. Found people who cared about the same things. Began to imagine a future you hadn't considered before.
That's been true for me. Thousands of people have helped make it possible by explaining hard things, sharing unfinished work, and inviting others to build with them.
There is room in that affection for frustration, too. Ethereum has had its share of difficult moments, and we're still working through some of them. When people build something they hope will last for generations, there will be periods when its direction, its purpose and its institutions are questioned. What grows out of those periods depends on the choices we make and the work we're willing to do together. There's plenty here worth caring for, and plenty still to build.
Ethereum TV is our small contribution to that work.
Starting today, it's open to everyone at ethereumtv.co: more than 25,000 talks, connected to the people, topics, events and communities behind them.
That's more than 12,000 speakers, around 600 events, nearly 250 communities and over 17,000 hours of content, from 2011 to this week. Talks, workshops, panels, podcasts and community calls.
The recordings already live on YouTube and elsewhere. Our work has been to connect them, so anyone can follow an idea across years and stages, discover the people working on it, and find a community they want to be part of.
We picked this week on purpose. Thousands of people are in Mumbai for Devcon 8. The ideas they're sharing deserve to travel far beyond the people in the room.
Make yourself at home
Come in with something you're curious about. Here are a few ways to begin.
1. Look up the talk you could never find again. Search for a speaker, topic, event or words from a title. Search also recognizes the names people actually use, so DePIN leads you to Physical Infrastructure, even though that isn't the name you typed.
2. Follow the people you learn from. Speakers, communities, topics and podcasts. Their talks appear newest first in your feed, with no ranking, but with powerful filtering options. Start with Vitalik Buterin, Zero Knowledge, Zuzalu or Web3Privacy Now, who ran the Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress in Mumbai this week.
3. Turn on the TV. Pick a channel and it's already playing the same talk for everyone watching. See what's on and what's next, from Scaling Season TV to Cypherpunk Hour TV, plus Devcon TV for this week.
4. Follow a thread. Explore Privacy, Layer 2s or another of our 120 topics. Or check out our learning tracks in 10 lessons: Ethereum for Beginners if you're new, Solidity & Smart Contract Dev if you're ready to build.
5. Find yourself. If you've spoken at an Ethereum event, you may already have a page gathering your talks across years and stages. Your work can keep reaching people long after the event.
Every recorded Devcon edition lives on the Ethereum Foundation page. Devcon 7 alone brings more than 600 talks; Devcon 8 joins as its talks are processed.
A small heads-up if you use a VPN: YouTube sometimes restricts embedded playback on VPN connections. If a video won't play, try switching your VPN location or briefly disconnecting, if you're comfortable doing so.
Coming soon: Ask Ethereum TV
Search finds talks. What we're building next finds answers.
Over the past months we've quietly gathered transcripts for more than 85% of the archive: more than 25,000 talks and over 150 million words of Ethereum content. That's the foundation for Ask Ethereum TV.
I also want to recognize the Forkcast team, whose work transcribing Ethereum's developer calls helps people follow the conversations where the protocol takes shape.
You'll be able to ask a real question, like "what does scaling Ethereum's L1 mean for rollups?" or "how do we make Ethereum safe from quantum computers?", and get answers in the speakers' own words, with each quote linked to the date and moment in the recording where they said it.
For a researcher tracing an idea, a journalist checking a claim or a builder weighing a design choice, that means being able to go straight to the source.
We'll share more soon. If you'd like to be among the first to try Ask Ethereum TV, write to hello@ethereumtv.co.
We have a long list of ideas for where ETV could go next. We'd love yours, too. Tell us what you'd like to learn, find or do here, and what would make this more useful to you.
Built in the open
Our topic map and recommendation engine are open for anyone to inspect, use and build on. Take either one and make it yours. Issues, code contributions and improvements to the map are welcome.
There's a place for you in this
Ethereum TV isn't finished. Some events were never recorded. Some recordings we haven't found. Many YouTube channels that hosted talks have disappeared. Some details we've surely got wrong.
Send us what's missing. Use "Suggest a video" in the website footer, or email us with an archive or series you'd like to add.
Tell us what's wrong. Use "Suggest a correction" on a talk page. We read everything and usually fix it within hours.
Share your corner of Ethereum. Send someone a talk. If you're a speaker or a community, share your page and help more people find their way in.
Thank you
To the communities who brought people together. To the organizers who spent months making gatherings happen, and the volunteers who welcomed people and kept everything running.
To the speakers who prepared keynotes and slides, explained hard things and answered questions. To everyone who travelled, sometimes across the world, gave their time and attention, or stayed afterwards to carry on the conversation. To those who joined remotely or passed a recording on. To the recording teams and archive keepers.
By the time a talk reaches Ethereum TV, a whole community has already made it possible. Our part is to connect that work and help it keep reaching people.
To Devcon Archive, StreamETH and Livepeer, for helping that knowledge reach people everywhere.
A personal thank you to my old colleagues at the AKASHA Foundation, who I've had the privilege of working alongside over the past years. Some of these ideas took shape in our conversations long before there was a website. Ethereum TV grew out of AKASHA as a spin-off, and carries a little of those years and those people with it.
And to Mihai Alisie, our advisor, for having the idea in the first place, and for backing this team and making it possible to bring ETV to life.
Ethereum has given us a lot. I hope this gives something back.
Now press play and see where it takes you.
Alex W. Bendella
Founder, Ethereum TV
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