Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours

335 videos

27:45 2024-01-09 Verified Tweets
  • A January 2024 whiteboard revisiting an idea he once pitched to Jack Dorsey: verified tweets using decentralized identifiers and cryptographic signatures.
  • Walks through access control and authentication factors, then shows how registering a DID lets you drop passwords and cryptographically sign every tweet.
23 timestamps 25:35 2023-12-22 On the Nature of the Propagandized and Damage to the Mind
  • A December 2023 essay prompted by a community tweet warning Charles off politics, arguing that repeated exposure to propaganda physically damages the brain and makes objectivity nearly impossible.
  • Says weaponized politics has left people unable to grant even due process to opponents, while phones and TikTok gut attention spans and the ability to learn.
26 timestamps 26:05 2023-12-20 Due Process and the Constitution
  • A December 2023 essay on due process and the Constitution, prompted by the Colorado Supreme Court barring Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
  • Uses formal systems and Godel and Turing to explain why a constitution can never be fully unambiguous, and walks the three ways courts satisfy a due-process test.
25 timestamps 24:58 2023-12-13 Free Speech
  • A December 2023 essay on free speech, prompted by three university presidents testifying that calling for genocide depends on context, with Harvard scoring zero on FIRE's free-speech index.
  • Argues free speech is not consequence-free speech but must never be criminalized, warning that academia and media are converging toward a totalitarianism the Chernobyl disaster epitomizes.
24 timestamps 45:57 2023-11-30 On Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano
  • A November 2023 essay from Abu Dhabi elaborating on his anger at the inconsistency of US securities law, where Bitcoin gets a pass while every altcoin is branded a security and a scam.
  • Argues Bitcoin was no more immaculate than any project, since Satoshi held 100 percent of the hash power on day one, and that the same facts should apply to Ethereum and Cardano.
44 timestamps 2:02:25 2023-11-26 Surprise AMA 11/26/2023
  • A 122-minute Surprise AMA from November 2023 opening on the Cardano Summit, the age of governance with CIP 1694 and SanchoNet, and partner chains via a Rust toolkit downstream of which Midnight is built.
  • A long, angry critique of US securities law: the SEC's overly broad Howey test, Coinbase's approved-then-sued IPO, and why a protocol run by thousands is a commodity, not a security.
94 timestamps 46:46 2023-11-17 Midnight Special
  • A November 2023 whiteboard deep-dive on Midnight and the Cardano service-layer, or partner-chain, architecture that lets specialized chains partner with Cardano.
  • Explains the model: service chains with their own logic but a common ancestor, borrowing Cardano security via Minotaur and SPO super nodes, with a dual-token ownership-and-fuel design.
37 timestamps 48:11 2023-11-15 Thesis & Dysmorphia Interview
  • A November 2023 interview where Hoskinson hosts Matej and Marina, the Croatian founders of Thesis & Dysmorphia, the first rigorous scientific survey of the Cardano NFT space.
  • They explain the design: Thesis the 82-page research paper and Dysmorphia the NFT project used as its own case study, run across 47 projects with OG, whitelist, and public groups.
38 timestamps 52:29 2023-10-15 Something a Little New
  • An October 2023 Obsidian-whiteboard essay where Hoskinson tries one more time to clarify his XRP-case remarks by separating two distinct concerns.
  • He distinguishes whether Ethereum got an SEC free pass, which he calls unprovable without an investigation America no longer does, from whether Ethereum bribed the SEC to target XRP, for which he sees no evidence.
38 timestamps 42:45 2023-10-11 The Rings of Power: Cardano's Genesis Keys
  • An October 2023 explainer on Cardano's seven genesis keys, the rings of power, introduced with Shelley as a 3-2-2 custodial mechanism among IO, Emurgo, and the Cardano Foundation to trigger hard forks and parameter changes.
  • Shows the keys and their signing process are fully documented in the formal ledger specifications since 2019, and rebuts claims any entity totally controls the network, since disagreement would just cause an uncontrolled fork.
39 timestamps 2:37:50 2023-10-08 Surprise AMA October 8th, 2023
  • An impromptu 2.5-hour surprise AMA from Colorado on October 8th 2023, opening with the Cardano roadmap: SanchoNet 8.5, 2024 as the year of side chains and Mithril, Ouroboros Leios, Lace, and Prism.
  • A long defense of CIP 1694 and the peer-review process against a loud minority, explaining the 3-2-2 genesis keys and why decentralized governance and a Cardano budget are the real 2024 fight.
120 timestamps 25:26 2023-10-06 Okonomiyaki
  • An October 2023 okonomiyaki rollup video, a conversation about a little bit of everything, opening with plans to restructure the AMAs into a monthly stream plus weekly Hosk Said Q&As.
  • A candid post-mortem of two projects that did not pan out, the Plutus Application Backend and the Yella and K virtual machine, and why semantics-based compilation never worked out.
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