Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

29:59 2023-03-16 Drama and FUD with Governance
  • A March 2023 video responding to Twitter FUD about CIP 1694, using a vote-or-lose-your-rewards tweet to show how misrepresentation creates needless drama.
  • Explains the delegate, abstain, or no-confidence voting mechanism as a superset of today's system that enables direct democracy and a vote of no confidence in the whole government.
30 timestamps 37:18 2023-03-06 Chaz and Gingersnaps Episode 1: Tragically Hip
  • The March 2023 pilot of a casual Chaz and Gingersnaps podcast, co-hosted with IO President Tamara Hassan from Ontario Canada, mixing personal chat with substantive topics.
  • Personal threads on Tamara's small-town roots, her textile and fashion hobby, spider-silk goats and smart fabrics, muskox on the ranch, and Hoskinson's guitars.
29 timestamps 30:06 2023-02-27 An Open Letter to Me
  • A February 2023 video where Hoskinson reads a critical open letter accusing him of supporting alt-right figures like Elon Musk and Jordan Peterson and of forcing contingent staking on the community.
  • His rebuttal argues against the authoritarian instinct to label disagreement as hatred, defending nuance, free speech, and the right to question lab-leak and vaccine-passport orthodoxy.
37 timestamps 1:49:15 2023-02-25 Surprise AMA 02/25/2023
  • A late-February 2023 surprise AMA opening with the roadmap wrapping a seven-year agenda, the CNN and CoinDesk acquisition rumors, and an AI workflow that auto-summarizes his videos.
  • A long Plutus whiteboard on extended UTXO, Marlowe, the surface-language-plus-core model like the JVM, and the abandoned K-framework and Yella approach, plus a generative-AI demo.
84 timestamps 34:13 2023-02-17 UPD 02/17/2023
  • Announces the second edition of Cardano for the Masses by John Green and asks the community to help correct and improve it.
  • Reflects on seven years of building Cardano and frames the age of Voltaire, capped by CIP 1694 and Genesis peer to peer, as the hardest and least certain part of the road map.
44 timestamps 30:31 2023-02-17 UPD 02/17/2023
  • Opens by announcing an upcoming Twitter Space debate on contingent staking and points to a community built pro and con board for crowdsourcing arguments.
  • Argues contingent staking does not replace normal staking, has nothing inherent to do with KYC, and is philosophically no different from the block discrimination DC Spark's layer two workaround already allows today.
32 timestamps 47:34 2023-02-16 UPD 02/16/2023
  • A February 2023 video defending contingent staking, a minor feature that has become a proxy fight over how Cardano governance will actually work.
  • The design is a minimum viable multi sig pattern where both a staker and a pool operator can set signing conditions and attach metadata, accommodating many use cases.
48 timestamps 26:52 2023-02-14 UPD 02/14/2023
  • Explains contingent staking, a proposed protocol feature letting SPOs approve or reject specific delegations, likened to a business's right to refuse service.
  • Clarifies the feature does not hand Cardano over to the US government or OFAC, it just gives stake pool operators contractual control over their delegator relationships.
27 timestamps 36:40 2023-02-14 UPD 02/14/2023
  • A whiteboard reading of the SEC complaint against the Kraken staking program, tallying again and again that Cardano is not affected.
  • The case is not about staking itself but about a proprietary custodial product that deviates from the underlying protocols.
42 timestamps 19:32 2023-02-09 UPD 02/09/2023
  • Breaks down why staking has no single definition across chains, since custodial risk, information asymmetry, and bonding or slashing mechanics vary between Avalanche, Polkadot, Tezos, Cardano, Ethereum, and Algorand.
  • Argues Cardano's non-custodial, synthetic-resource stake pool model is fundamentally different from custodial staking services and should not inherit Ethereum's regulatory exposure.
24 timestamps 25:49 2023-01-28 UPD 01/28/2023
  • Explain Cardano's settlement layer and computation layer split, tracing it back to the 2016 Why Cardano essay, and show how side chains let bespoke computation layers connect to the main chain.
  • Argue every blockchain design involves trade-offs; there is no perfect God protocol, and Bitcoin maximalism's refusal to ever change the core protocol is one extreme answer among several.
31 timestamps 12:08 2023-01-26 UPD 01/26/2023
  • A response to an opinion article titled Charles Hoskinson would be the worst thing to happen to CoinDesk, used to diagnose journalism's real problem.
  • The core argument is that journalism's incentive structure is broken: outlets are paid to make you angry and click, not to establish truth.
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