How Telureo works
On Telureo, people who know their subject teach live lectures on YouTube, and anyone aged 13 and over can watch them for free. Every tutor teaches with an agency, a team on the Bittensor network. The network rewards each agency in proportion to the live audience its tutors reach.
The 4 roles
Section titled “The 4 roles”| Who | What they do |
|---|---|
| Learners | Watch lectures live on YouTube for free, with or without an account, and ask questions in the live chat. |
| Tutors | Teach live lectures on Telureo’s 12 YouTube channels. Each tutor belongs to an agency. |
| Agencies | Bittensor miners. An agency recruits up to 5 tutors, agrees how to pay them, and helps them teach well. |
| Validators | Score each agency by the live audience of its tutors’ lectures, and set the network’s weights. |
From booking to reward
Section titled “From booking to reward”Here’s the path a lecture takes.
- A tutor books a lecture on one of the 12 channels: 11 subjects, plus Other. We create the YouTube live event and give the tutor their stream settings.
- The tutor teaches live. From the booked start, as soon as the tutor’s stream arrives, we start the broadcast. It always ends at the booked end. Learners watch on YouTube and ask questions in the chat.
- YouTube reports the live audience. About 48 hours after the lecture ends, we read its live watch-minutes from YouTube Analytics. We read them again every 30 minutes until 120 hours after the end.
- The lecture gets its score. The score is its live watch-minutes. Replays never count. The score is final after 120 hours.
- Validators reward the agency. Each validator downloads Telureo’s data and adds up every agency’s scores for lectures that ended 48 to 120 hours ago. It checks a few lectures against YouTube, then sets weights in proportion to each agency’s score.
The 12 channels
Section titled “The 12 channels”K–12 Academics, Test Prep, Languages, Tech & Coding, University & Professional, Creative Arts, Career & Professional Skills, Personal Finance & Investing, Health & Wellness, Hobbies & Lifestyle, Bittensor, and Other.
Each one is its own YouTube channel, owned by Telureo. Up to 8 lectures can run at once on each channel.
What a score measures
Section titled “What a score measures”A score measures live audience: the minutes people spent watching a lecture while it was live. It doesn’t measure teaching quality, and it isn’t a percentage. Agencies can use scores, together with their own judgment, to decide how to pay and coach their tutors. How scores work has the details.
Where knowledge finds its purpose. Free live lectures from people who know their subject, for learners aged 13 and over.