Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

22:36 2023-01-23 UPD 01/23/2023
  • A whiteboard video on network operations, using Sunday's brief stall to explain the balance between prevention and recovery in distributed systems.
  • Every distributed system introduces demons: speed, open access, permissionless operation, Byzantine actors, and expressiveness, each of which erodes prevention.
30 timestamps 9:03 2023-01-23 UPD 01/23/2023
  • A postmortem on a weekend mainnet incident where nodes with incoming connections briefly shut down and the network stalled for about two minutes.
  • The likely cause is a transient, emergent bug in balance code added for optimization, hard to reproduce because it depends on a global collective state.
12 timestamps 12:52 2023-01-19 UPD 01/19/2023
  • With DCG in trouble and shedding assets, CoinDesk is up for sale at around 200 million dollars, which looks overpriced given a gross profit near 50 million.
  • The deeper interest is in building an elite media institution with real journalistic integrity, after years of receiving bad and sometimes agenda driven coverage.
20 timestamps 4:10 2023-01-18 UPD 01/18/2023
  • A short thank you video after two weeks sick with covid, showing off a painting sent by a community member in Finland.
  • The gift came with a heartfelt letter and an inspired song, Crypto Cowboys, that the artists plan to mint as an NFT collection.
8 timestamps 1:23:21 2023-01-07 AMA 01/07/2023
  • Reviews the early 2023 Cardano roadmap: CIP-1694 governance, the Ouroboros Leios input endorsers paper, tiered transaction pricing, Babel fees, and the Lace wallet beta on track for Q1.
  • Addresses the FTX collapse's lingering damage to crypto regulation, stalled DC legislative work, and distrust of crypto media like CoinDesk and CoinTelegraph.
109 timestamps 13:16 2023-01-03 UPD 01/03/2023
  • On Bitcoin's fourteenth birthday, a discussion of NFT rights sparked by using a fan made NFT of himself as a profile picture.
  • The right click phenomenon shows it is unclear what you actually buy with an NFT, since you own a digital object on a blockchain, not the intellectual property.
20 timestamps 10:54 2022-12-24 UPD 12/24/2022
  • A Christmas Eve warning about the LastPass breach, a password manager recommended in the past.
  • Attackers obtained every encrypted vault of all 33 million users, so the only remaining barrier is guessing each master password.
15 timestamps 2:21:50 2022-12-19 AMA 12/19/2022
  • A wide ranging end of year 2022 AMA opening with a review of a brutal year where the market fell from 2.6 trillion to under 800 billion amid the Luna, Celsius, and FTX collapses.
  • The die hards kept building: Vasil shipped, many papers were written, and the Voltaire vision came together with CIP 1694, the MBO, and a constitution.
89 timestamps 6:27 2022-12-16 UPD 12/16/2022
  • A short statement about the XRP community after an AMA answer about whether Cardano could be a security spilled over into the XRP case.
  • A rumor from a reliable source about a possible December 15 resolution was repeated as a rumor, then treated as a firm prediction and called a lie when it did not happen.
11 timestamps 2:11:00 2022-12-10 AMA 12/10/2022
  • An Ada Lovelace's birthday AMA reflecting on a brutal 2022, with the market down from 2.6 trillion to under 900 billion and FTX's dirty laundry emerging.
  • The recurring technical thread is side chains as partner chains, where a chain like Solana could get security and liquidity from Cardano and pay rewards to SPOs.
72 timestamps 12:31 2022-12-08 UPD 12/08/2022
  • Three days into a two week fast, a whiteboard talk on RealFi, sparked by a DeFi systematization of knowledge paper at the Stanford blockchain conference.
  • RealFi is DeFi with identity: it adds identity, metadata, governance, and standards and certification, with a regulatory structure on top.
13 timestamps 23:43 2022-12-07 UPD 12/07/2022
  • A contrarian, libertarian take on Edward Snowden, arguing he is not a true martyr because he fled to China and then Russia rather than staying to be arrested.
  • The deeper point is the hypocrisy of the privacy movement, which decries government surveillance while carrying Google, Alexa, and TikTok everywhere.
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