Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

4:57:40 2021-06-16 AMA 06/16/2021
  • make the case for Cardano's peer reviewed, Haskell based approach to consensus (Ouroboros) and smart contracts (Plutus) as safer than move fast and break things engineering
  • frame three generations of cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano) and argue a third generation chain needs built in governance and self evolution to survive at billions of users scale
285 timestamps 26:59 2021-06-08 Resources and 1 to N for Consensus
  • A technical talk defending proof of stake against Bitcoin-maximalist FUD, showing proof of work and proof of stake differ only in how they select a leader.
  • Explains the idea of moving from one consensus resource to N, combining hashes, ownership, merit, storage, and network capacity into a balanced system.
20 timestamps 46:26 2021-05-21 Video for Jack: PoW versus PoS
  • A technical whiteboard responding to Jack Dorsey's claim that proof of work is better than proof of stake, arguing there is no silver bullet.
  • Walks through distributed-systems foundations from Lamport to the GKL Bitcoin Backbone paper and the Ouroboros family of proof-of-stake protocols.
43 timestamps 1:30:53 2021-05-19 AMA 05/19/2021
  • A brutal market day is just how frontier markets work: ADA fell from about 2.40 to a dollar three and rebounded, and markets are simply bad at pricing innovation.
  • The march to Alonzo is relentless and will ship in color coded stages, with Alonzo Blue and Alonzo White explained at the next Cardano360 in eight days.
104 timestamps 58:15 2021-05-06 Models, Game Theory, and Policy
  • Apply game theory to vaccination: reaching 70 percent needs a real incentive, ending restrictions for the vaccinated, not mandates or shame.
  • Trust the data, since 95 million vaccinated Americans produced only 9245 breakthroughs and Israel's cases collapsed well before 70 percent.
49 timestamps 28:56 2021-04-27 Birds
  • Announce the signed Ethiopia Ministry of Education deal, putting decentralized identity on Cardano for 5 million people and making it one of the most-used blockchains by population.
  • Frame a pan-African strategy from Tanzania to Ethiopia scaling over 24 to 36 months, betting that changing Africa's systems will change the world.
30 timestamps 1:44:28 2021-04-26 People of IOG: Dr. Dynal Patel
  • A People of IOG interview with Dr. Dynal Patel, chief product officer of Input Output, tracing his path from a remote Zambian village to Cardano.
  • Recount his childhood between an Indian father and a Zambian royal mother, missionary boarding schools, and a computer science degree at the University of Cape Town.
62 timestamps 1:41:22 2021-04-22 AMA 04/22/2021
  • Opens from Colorado previewing the upcoming Africa Special and Cardano360 update, plus Plutus Pioneer Program progress with 1500 developers.
  • Explains why Cardano is built in Haskell and gives updates on Hydra, formal verification, NFT marketplaces, and hardware wallet security.
105 timestamps 34:32 2021-04-19 Regulation
  • Warn that US crypto regulation is coming this year, likely folded into a tax bill as consumer protection, since no government lets a trillion-dollar industry stay in a gray area.
  • Blame the urgency on Dogecoin and NFT excesses that look Ponzi-like, expecting SEC chair Gary Gensler to target DeFi first.
35 timestamps 33:18 2021-04-05 Some Musings about the Roadmap
  • Preview the Cardano 2025 research agenda as the sequel to Cardano 2020, still being pulled together with a major consulting firm.
  • Introduce Ouroboros Omega as the capstone consensus paper, matching proof of work while being 1.6 million times more energy efficient with up to 1000 TPS.
30 timestamps 31:32 2021-04-02 Yet Again on Covid
  • Return to covid after a Rick McCracken interview, insisting he wears a mask daily and only demands clear goalposts, numbers, and accountability.
  • Warn that with no plan to vaccinate 3 billion people and no genomic surveillance, escaping variants guarantee the restrictions never end.
25 timestamps 2:03:01 2021-03-31 People of IOG: Dr. Lars Brunjes
  • A People of IOG biographical interview with Dr. Lars Brunjes, IOG's director of education, tracing his life from a Cold War childhood in West Germany to running the Plutus Pioneers program.
  • Lars recounts a mathematician's path: a mathematics degree and a PhD in algebraic geometry at Cologne, a postdoc at Cambridge working on non-standard analysis, then leaving academia for industrial optimization software.
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