Overview
Big Pey is a YouTube channel about Cardano and the wider crypto ecosystem. It is hosted by a creator who goes by Pey, who also operates the Bloom stake pools, a Cardano staking business linked from the channel's own profile page.1
Live sessions are a regular part of the channel. They run long, and many are billed as ask-me-anything discussions, where the host and any guests work through questions sent in by viewers while the stream is running.2
Key Features
- Long conversations with ecosystem figures. Guests get room to describe their own work at length rather than in a clip. Charles Hoskinson, founder of Input Output Group, joined for a live podcast that ran over an hour.3
- News covered as it lands. Live sessions walk through what changed, such as a discussion of a United States regulator approving an exchange-traded fund that holds ADA.4
- New products tried out on air. Some sessions open a tool during the stream and show what using it looks like, such as an early run through SundaeSwap before its public launch, one of the first decentralized exchanges on Cardano, where people trade tokens directly from their own wallets.5
- Midnight updates. Live sessions carry segments on Midnight, a privacy-focused network built alongside Cardano, including the distribution of its token to holders.2
- A podcast archive. The Cardano Aura, an interview podcast from the same creator, holds 49 episodes on Apple Podcasts6 and Spotify7. The feed published its last episode in December 2022.8
What to Expect
Big Pey videos are free to watch, and the live sessions range from about forty minutes to more than nine hours.2
The back catalogue goes back to 20203 and follows Cardano's development as it happened, including the arrival of smart contracts (self-running programs that carry out an agreement automatically), the launch of the first decentralized exchanges, and the Vasil network upgrade.2
Away from YouTube, the host posts on X9 and runs a Discord server called bigpey's community, which has several thousand members.10
