Conversations
Video conversations documenting the early days of Ethereum, featuring key participants and historical insights.
museum of ethereum walkthrough
Bob Summerwill and Kieren James-Lubin walk through the Museum of Ethereum at ETHDenver, covering the many hands behind Ethereum's early history, the Foundation's formative eras, EthSuisse and Miami, and the Ethereum Time Machine demo with Homestead, Geth and Mist. Thanks to Colin de Picker for filming and A/V production.
early days of ethereum - episode 12 - fabian vogelsteller
Fabian Vogelsteller joined the Ethereum Foundation in January 2015 and built the Mist browser, Ethereum Wallet, and authored the ERC-20 token standard that enabled the ICO boom. He discusses the early Berlin office culture, DEVCON1 and token standardization, maintaining web3.js, and his eventual departure to build LUKSO and Universal Profiles for mainstream adoption.
early days of ethereum - episode 11 - ryan taylor
A dual-interview at Dark Prague's ZK AV Club, where Ryan Taylor and Bob Summerwill take turns interviewing each other. Ryan built the original Ethereum website from his role as Bitcoin Magazine's webmaster alongside Vitalik and Mihai Alisie. Bob shares the origins of the Early Days of Ethereum project. They discuss forgotten early contributors, the deleted Ethereum GitHub repo, decentralized storage, and preserving crypto history.
early days of ethereum - episode 10 - viktor trón
Ethereum Foundation early employee Viktor Trón shares his journey from BBC News Labs and the London Bitcoin scene to becoming one of the first Geth developers and founding the Swarm project. He discusses discovering Ethereum through Gavin Wood's February 2014 presentation, the Web3 vision's Holy Trinity (Ethereum, Swarm, Whisper), decentralized storage architecture, and Swarm's path to independence.
early days of ethereum - episode 9 - amir taaki
Bitcoin developer and privacy technologist Amir Taaki recounts finding Bitcoin, early development (Libbitcoin and BIPs), Dark Wallet, meeting Vitalik Buterin, and his perspective on Ethereum’s early days and DarkFi.
early days of ethereum - episode 8 - michael parenti
Michael Parenti was a Bitcoiner from the very early days, working for the Bitcoin Foundation and later very involved in Ethereum
early days of ethereum - episode 7 - jacob czepluch
Jacob was an intern at ETHDEV in late 2015, so was a fly-on-the-wall in the Berlin office as the C++ team was defunded. He had earlier founded the Copenhagen Ethereum Meetup
early days of ethereum - episode 6 - christoph jentzsch
Christophe Jentzsch joined ETHDEV shortly after the crowdsale and built all the cross-client testing infrastructure. He founded Slock.it, focused on smartlocks and IoT. Slock.it were the creators of The DAO, Ethereum's first 'killer app'
early days of ethereum - episode 5 - anthony 'texture' d'onofrio
Anthony D'Onofrio ('Texture') was Ethereum's first 'community guy' and shared his unique perspective starting from the very earliest days of the project.
early days of ethereum - episode 4 - taylor gerring
After a long hiatus since episode 3, Taylor Gerring joined as a guest to talk about his experiences in the very early days of the Ethereum project, starting in December 2013.
early days of ethereum - episode 3 - bob summerwill
Episode 3 of the Early Days of Ethereum video series features Bob Summerwill discussing his journey in blockchain and Ethereum.
early days of ethereum - episode 2
The second episode of the Early Days of Ethereum video series, continuing the exploration of Ethereum's founding period.
early days of ethereum - episode 1
The first episode of the Early Days of Ethereum video series, independently produced by the co-Founders of BlockApps.