Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

10:48 2022-11-25 UPD 25/11/2022
  • A response to the Ardana and Orbis projects discontinuing operations, which the community first learned about through Twitter.
  • It was distasteful that the leadership blamed Cardano, since Ethereum famously raised 18 million, lost half to volatility, and still delivered; this was a leadership failure.
13 timestamps 26:13 2022-11-12 UPD 11/12/2022
  • A Veterans Day reflection on the FTX collapse, which went from a crypto empire to an existential threat in about 48 hours.
  • In hindsight the warning signs were clear: a regulated business in a position of trust led by inexperienced kids without a diverse expert team.
21 timestamps 57:28 2022-11-06 Video to Elon: Decentralized Twitter Using Doge and Cardano
  • A November 2022 stream-of-consciousness whiteboard aimed at Elon Musk and Twitter staff, designing a decentralized Twitter from the crypto industry's best components.
  • Diagnoses the engagement-maximizing algorithm and surveillance-capitalism business model, then rebuilds identity around W3C DIDs, Atala Prism, and post-quantum Falcon signatures.
50 timestamps 28:30 2022-11-05 Birthday Musings
  • A November 2022 reflective birthday monologue on his 35th birthday, thanking the community and recounting a grueling year across six companies and the Web Summit in Lisbon.
  • Reflects on a bitter year of unfair books and politics, the erosion of free speech, and the coming age of deepfakes and AI-curated consent, with crypto as the last barrier.
27 timestamps 1:37:14 2022-10-07 Live from Wyoming
  • An October 2022 special-edition AMA from his Wyoming ranch, opening with why he returned the Ethereum Classic Twitter handle but sent the followers to Ergo, and a Vitalik-impersonation bot Twitter refused to remove.
  • Pitches verified tweets via DIDs as the fix for bots and impersonation, and rebuts the one-transaction-per-block myth about Cardano.
72 timestamps 35:06 2022-10-03 Let's Talk Basho
  • An October 2022 technical whiteboard on the Basho scalability era, explaining that Basho and Voltaire run concurrently and that Basho is already underway with diffusion pipelining and Plutus improvements.
  • Walks through the pillars: Mithril proof certificates and Hydra as embedded dapp infrastructure, both going many-to-one, plus input endorsers as the parallel-architecture big daddy.
33 timestamps 1:29:50 2022-09-17 Surprise AMA 09/17/2022
  • A September 2022 surprise AMA covering the Hoskinson Health clinic's plans, the Algorand Foundation friction over John Woods, the Vasil FUD, and Atala Prism integration into Lace.
  • A detailed lesson on how he reads cryptography and medical research papers, plus the regulatory landscape from the White House framework to the Lummis-Gillibrand bill and his Congress testimony.
81 timestamps 2:22:25 2022-08-19 AMA 08/19/2022
  • Recaps DEF CON and Crypto 2023, including post quantum cryptography research and a Liberian digital identity case study.
  • Explains why quantum resistance is not on the roadmap yet and teases a fourth generation protocol beyond the 2027 roadmap.
106 timestamps 29:20 2022-08-10 Thresholds and Precedents
  • A political monologue reacting to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, arguing it crosses a Rubicon into an era where every future president gets searched and arrested on a technicality.
  • Uses the crisis as a case study in why hyper-centralization of power is dangerous and why the crypto industry works to push power to the edges.
31 timestamps 1:28:14 2022-07-16 AMA 07/16/2022
  • Broadcast live from an AMA and Haskell developer graduation in Mongolia, where ADA holders grew from under 2,000 to 140,000 in three years.
  • Lay out the RealFi framework, infrastructure, identity, and applications, as the philosophy behind Cardano's real world focus.
82 timestamps 27:00 2022-06-30 Let's Talk Roadmap and Governance
  • A mid-2022 roadmap talk laying out Cardano's four concurrent development tracks after Vasil: Shelley cleanup, Goguen, Basho, and Voltaire.
  • Explains the shift from the ephemeral Emurgo/CF/IOHK tripartite structure to a merit-based members organization run with Linux Foundation veteran Dirk's help.
28 timestamps 26:44 2022-05-27 Update from Washington
  • A report from a week of lobbying in Washington DC, walking through the three legislative efforts shaping US crypto regulation: HR 7614, the Lummis-Gillibrand bill, and the Biden executive order.
  • Lays out the three things he argues the industry needs: a measurable definition of decentralization, a consumer bill of rights, and transnational standards.
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