Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

2:01:38 2022-04-13 AMA 04/13/2022
  • Preview June's Vasil hard fork unlocking stablecoins, DEXes and a wave of new dApps, alongside steady progress on pipelining and input endorsers.
  • Push back hard on MMT and money printing, arguing it enriches the wealthy first and drives the inflation crushing the poor and middle class.
173 timestamps 27:28 2022-04-12 Rollup
  • A roll-up update after travel to Dubai, the Ukraine border, and Switzerland, previewing the Vasil hard fork with pipelining and the first big wave of Plutus enhancements.
  • Works through the growing pains of a maturing ecosystem: competing DEXes and stablecoins in IO's own C Fund portfolio, wallet and smart-contract certification, and how to stay impartial.
28 timestamps 1:00:18 2022-03-26 Dubai Surprise AMA 03/26/2022
  • A surprise AMA from Dubai during the Binance event, opening with a deep dive on the June Vasil hard fork, pipelining, and why extended UTXO beats the accounts model.
  • Fields grab-bag questions on Hydra expectations, Mithril for mobile, the Mamba EVM sidechain, Minotaur multi-resource consensus, and Atala Prism credentials for Africa.
63 timestamps 1:06:15 2022-03-14 AMA 03/14/2022
  • Opens with personal tangents on brain computer interface hardware, longevity research, and psychedelics before turning to Cardano questions.
  • Judges Cardano's health by TVL, transaction volume, and developer growth rather than price, with Mamba and Milkomeda expanding the sidechain ecosystem.
73 timestamps 38:00 2022-03-07 Some Updates
  • An update from a week of workshops with Cardano Foundation leadership on restructuring Cardano as a proper open-source project, modeled on the Mozilla, Apache, and Linux foundations.
  • Previews the Mamba EVM sidechain launch as the introduction to Cardano's whole sidechain strategy, plus the pipelining and input-endorsers roadmap.
37 timestamps 2:44:04 2022-02-21 AMA 02/21/2022
  • Cardano's roadmap keeps moving: the Vasil hard fork in June and a follow up hard fork in October bring pipelining, input endorsers, and Marlowe smart contracts, with over 500 projects now building on the network.
  • Real world identity work through Atala PRISM, covering millions of people in Ethiopia and Bhutan, remains central to the mission of giving billions of people economic identity.
153 timestamps 32:18 2022-02-06 A Bit of Everything
  • A wide-ranging monologue opening on the SundaeSwap and CardStarter lawsuit and a teachable moment about legal hygiene for young Cardano ventures.
  • Defends Joe Rogan amid the Spotify deplatforming push and argues crypto is not yet ready to replace social media.
30 timestamps 38:21 2022-02-04 Moxie's Thoughts on Cryptocurrencies and Web3
  • A read-along of Moxie Marlinspike's 'My first impressions of web3' essay, with Hoskinson's running commentary.
  • Walks through Moxie's finding that web3 has quietly re-centralized around Infura, Alchemy, OpenSea, and Etherscan, since clients cannot be blockchain peers.
40 timestamps 57:04 2022-01-25 Special Edition: Interview with Drunken Dragon Games and dIP
  • An interview with Bletic and Jorge of Drunken Dragon Games, a community-driven Cardano fantasy game that grew out of a stake pool and NFT collectibles.
  • The team walks through their art pipeline, the Grandmaster Adventurers collection, and building a 15-person studio funded by NFT sales.
50 timestamps 1:05:06 2022-01-02 Whiteboard: DApps and Development
  • A New Year technical whiteboard on Cardano dapp development, arguing why extended UTXO starts functional and dials expressiveness forward instead of dialing an accounts model back.
  • Walks through on-chain scaling via bigger blocks, pipelining, and input endorsers, then the three off-chain mechanisms: Hydra, off-chain computing, and side chains.
64 timestamps 1:08:29 2021-12-31 Little Bit of Everything
  • A New Year's Eve 2021 reflection ranging over the year's progress, the state of society, and a heavily philosophical case for rebuilding institutions.
  • Introduces his HHPG framework of Health, Happiness, Performance, and Growth, and urges asking foundational questions instead of accepting cynicism.
59 timestamps 28:06 2021-12-27 DApps and Cardano DeFi Alliance
  • A tour of Cardano's emerging DeFi ecosystem, rebutting the ghost-chain narrative with the Cardano Cube map and the new Cardano DeFi Alliance.
  • Walks through the 2022 roadmap window: the February and June hard forks, EVM and Yella side chains, Mithril, Hydra, and the developer tooling push.
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