From the team
Ethereum TV opens on Wednesday
More than 20,000 Ethereum talks from 2013 to today, searchable by topic, speaker and event, plus a TV that's always on.
By Ethereum TV · · 4 min read
Since 2013, Ethereum has done most of its thinking out loud. On conference stages from Berlin to Bogotá. In community calls that ran an hour over. In podcasts recorded at kitchen tables, and in workshops where a room of strangers deployed their first contract together.
Almost all of it was recorded. Connected, those talks become a map of Ethereum's knowledge.
On Wednesday, 4 November, Ethereum TV opens to everyone at ethereumtv.co. We're bringing all of those conversations together so more people can learn from them.
A home for Ethereum talks
Ethereum TV gathers the ecosystem's talks in one place: conference sessions, panels, workshops, podcast episodes, fireside chats and community calls. If someone stood up (or sat down) to explain an idea to Ethereum, it belongs here.
On opening day, that's more than 20,000 talks from 10,900 speakers, recorded at nearly 1,000 events and hosted by 244 communities. Close to 14,000 hours of content, from 2013 to today.
You'll be able to use it three ways.
Search it. One box finds talks, speakers, topics, events, communities and podcasts. Everything is organized into twenty topics and more than a hundred subtopics, so you can find the talk you half remember, or the one you didn't know you needed.
Follow it. Follow the speakers, communities, topics and podcasts you care about, and your feed fills with their new talks as soon as they land.
Leave it on. TV mode works like broadcast television. Pick a channel and it's already playing, the same talk for everyone tuned in at that moment. Put it on and let Ethereum keep you company.
Why we're building this
Ethereum TV began as Mihai Alisie's idea.
Mihai co-founded Ethereum and Bitcoin Magazine. He believes Ethereum grows when its ideas travel: when people find each other, when a talk becomes a product or a collaboration, and when Ethereum's values reach people who were never near the stage.
Ethereum TV is a new, independent company built on that belief, with Mihai as its backer and advisor. Our job is simple: no good idea should stay in the room it was spoken in.
The work behind the archive
We've spent the better part of a year bringing this together. Finding old recordings. Untangling speakers with the same name, and the same speaker with three spellings. Fixing dates, cities and editions, one at a time.
There's a technical challenge here, too: helping you find a few useful sentences among nearly 14,000 hours of recordings. We've indexed more than a million timestamped passages, each covering roughly 45 seconds of conversation, and we're exploring AI tools such as Jev to help pick out the relevant quotes quickly when you ask the archive a question.
That's the groundwork for what comes next: Ask Ethereum TV, to find answers in speakers' own words, and Argument Maps, to follow who said what as an idea was debated over time.
What it brings to the ecosystem
For newcomers, a way into Ethereum through what interests you. Find a first good talk, discover people who make the subject click, and follow your curiosity from there.
For builders and researchers, a way to find others working on the same challenges, wherever they are. Follow their work, keep up with new developments, and learn from the ideas and experiments that brought the field here.
For speakers, their body of work in one place. Every talk you've given, across every stage and every year, gathered on a page that's yours.
For organizers and communities, a second life for the recordings. A talk keeps finding its audience long after the livestream ends, helping people discover your community through its ideas.
How we intend to earn a place in your week
By being useful, one talk at a time. The catalog grows every day, from new conferences, back catalogues and talks people send us. Our team picks talks worth your time. When something is missing or wrong, you tell us, and we'll usually fix it within a few hours.
We're not trying to be another feed to scroll. We want to be the place you go when you want to understand something properly, and the channel you leave on when you just want to be near the conversation.
See you in 2 days
Between now and then, here's a small thing to try. Think of the one talk that changed how you see Ethereum. The one you've described to friends but could never find again.
On Wednesday, come and find it.
ethereumtv.co opens on 4 November.
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