Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

A July 2023 whiteboard talk demystifying the Basho scalability era, breaking scalability into its real properties: predictability, resource growth across network, data, and computation, and the trade-offs against decentralization, security, and egalitarian participation.
Walks through the four scalability tracks already under way, Hydra, Mithril, side chains, and on-chain optimizations, and how each moves work off the main chain without changing what users signed up for.

A July 2023 whiteboard explaining how the Cardano codebase transitions from the Input Output repos to Intersect, the community members-based organization, over the following year.
Details the mechanics: IO's tribes become community working groups feeding one Cardano product backlog, run on a quarterly PI system, with on-chain credentialing courses replacing gatekept access.

A late-July 2023 surprise AMA opening with the Intersect launch, the CIP 1694 candidate spec finalized in Edinburgh, and SanchoNet coming online with the first end-to-end Agda ledger specification.
A long regulatory thread on the mixed Ripple ruling and why it strengthens the case that Cardano and others are not securities, plus rebuttals of the ADA-is-a-security narrative.

A June 2023 return video that opens as a heartfelt eulogy for his grandfather Austin, a Marine turned cable-industry lineman and inventor, and a reflection on that don't-complain-get-it-done generation.
Recounts his two-week Papua New Guinea expedition funding Avi Loeb's recovery of the probably-interstellar object IM1, filmed by Netflix, and rails against groupthink in science.

A May 2023 two-hour-plus surprise AMA that opens with his Hoskinson Health clinic in Gillette, the case for curative over treatment medicine, and how blockchain and Midnight could modernize healthcare software.
Wide-ranging science tangents on anti-aging, biological immortality, psychedelics, the Kernel Flow, right-to-repair, and a long thread on how misinformation spreads, from an Epstein-Cardano smear to his changed view on the COVID vaccines.

A May 2023 roadmap update separating the forest from the trees, centered on the aggressive CIP 1694 development on node 8.0 and the 43 community governance workshops feeding a closing Edinburgh workshop.
Walks the parallel technical work streams: Ouroboros Genesis and UTXO-HD for decentralization, Plutus V3 with BLS, Hydra live on mainnet, and Mithril nearing mainnet for wallets.

An April 2023 whiteboard responding to a jab that Cardano lacks Polygon-style project support, explaining that Cardano is a decentralized protocol nobody owns, unlike pre-mined ecosystems with paid customer service.
Argues the treasury, the members-based organization, and CIP 1694 are the rails for the community to fund growth hacking, wallet standards, and other priorities rather than expecting IO to do it uncompensated.

An April 2023 marathon AMA co-hosted with JJ Seiler, opening with the Hoskinson Health clinic in Gillette and a live whiteboard designing an encrypted paper-wallet feature for Lace using animated QR codes.
Deep dives on the AI moment: Auto GPT, GPT self-reflection like Reflexion and DERA, AI for game NPCs and even writing a constitution, and why competitive pressure makes the race unstoppable.

An April 2023 okonomiyaki rollup, opening with the Lace wallet launch to mainnet and its move to a three-to-six-week release cadence, plus the node 8.0 transition where Voltaire features begin to deploy.
A technical middle covering congestion control and tiered pricing, the Ouroboros Peras finality gadget, Mithril wallet integration, a distributed mempool for input endorsers, and the maturing Marlowe and Atala Prism.

An April 2023 AMA co-hosted with Tamara Hassan, President of IO, opening with the CIP 1694 progress, node 8.0, Hydra hitting mainnet, and a demo of the Roxiva light-entrainment device.
A long AI thread on Sam Altman and the pause letter, GPT training GPT, and using GPT-4 for real research, plus how his non-crypto ventures in construction, medicine, and bioluminescent plants could use blockchain.

A March 2023 philosophical essay arguing that five interconnected technologies will define the 21st century: AI, quantum computing, synthetic biology, nanotech, and blockchain.
Frames the first four as either extending or regulating humanity, and blockchain as the fifth pillar that turns social rules into immutable digital natural law.

A March 2023 video where Hoskinson reads and endorses an open letter by Ryan Selkis of Messari to the House Financial Services Committee, responding to the White House report dismissing crypto.
The letter argues digital assets cannot be uninvented, that US infrastructure firms like Coinbase and Circle are already heavily regulated, and that the SEC's regulation-by-enforcement pushes innovation overseas.