Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

34:13 2021-03-29 Price and Value
  • Reject price as the measure of a project, since his best days were the pre-launch science years and ADA's price is the least interesting thing about Cardano.
  • Prove he is the last person to speculate, having given away 293000 ether and bought an Xbox with cheap Bitcoin, and refuse all price-pump requests.
34 timestamps 1:47:32 2021-03-28 AMA 03/28/2021
  • Alonzo is on track for Q2, with the public Plutus Pioneers testnet confirmed for May and smart contract details coming on Cardano360.
  • I'm expanding into Africa, hiring in Ethiopia, training developers in Ghana, and shifting our strategy toward consumer products and financial inclusion.
120 timestamps 33:33 2021-03-21 Some Thoughts on DApps
  • Rebut the ghost-chain smear, since Cardano is mid-upgrade to Goguen yet already runs metadata apps like New Balance and BeefChain with an oversubscribed deal pipeline.
  • Argue Ethereum's dapp model is unhealthy and unsustainable, with 60-dollar fees and speculative NFTs, which is why even Vitalik is fleeing to ETH2.
32 timestamps 2:42:26 2021-03-16 People of IOG: Dan Friedman
  • A People of IOG biographical interview with Daniel Friedman, one of IOHK's earliest employees, tracing his life from a Jewish childhood in Soviet Kiev to business development for Cardano out of Japan.
  • Dan recounts growing up under Brezhnev amid contraband laws and anti-semitism, living through the Chernobyl disaster, and his family's multi-year refugee journey through Austria and Italy to Philadelphia in 1989.
145 timestamps 1:05:52 2021-03-07 AMA 03/07/2021
  • Alonzo brings full smart contract programmability to Cardano through Plutus and Marlowe, with a Plutus Pioneers training program launching in April to onboard 500 to 1000 community developers.
  • The real point of cryptocurrency is letting people opt into a social contract they actually chose, instead of the credit scores, passports, and banking rules that were simply handed to them.
90 timestamps 1:50:11 2021-03-05 People of IOG: Dr. Mihaela Ulieru
  • A People of IOG interview with Dr. Mihaela Ulieru, tracing her path from communist Romania to control theory, AI, and Cardano.
  • Recount her rise from a bread-line childhood and poetry to a PhD in fuzzy-logic diagnosis under Rolf Isermann, mentored by Lotfi Zadeh.
65 timestamps 26:43 2021-03-04 Some real talk about Lockdowns
  • Argue there is no science behind current FDA policy, since three of five safe and effective vaccine platforms including cheap AstraZeneca and Novavax are withheld in the US.
  • Warn lockdowns never end because there is no plan to vaccinate the bottom 4 billion, guaranteeing yearly variants for a decade.
24 timestamps 1:00:18 2021-02-26 AMA 02/26/2021
  • Announced Babel fees, letting any native token pay its own transaction fees and positioning Cardano as a leading stablecoin platform.
  • Highlighted Cardano's global momentum: growing institutional interest, expansion in Africa, Mongolia, and Georgia, and a meeting with a major US telecom.
127 timestamps 28:56 2021-02-24 Tuesday Night Roll-up
  • Shrug off Dan Larimer's hype accusations, noting Cardano raised 2 percent of EOS's 4 billion yet shipped nearly 100 papers and a leading governance system.
  • Champion working with rivals like Gavin Wood, Tezos, and Ethereum, since crypto's progress needs adults, not petty feuds.
25 timestamps 1:10:27 2021-02-22 AMA 02/22/2021
  • Hosts a freewheeling AMA from Colorado, mixing rapid personal trivia with serious Cardano updates despite webcam and lighting glitches.
  • Confirms Cardano stays fully open source, promises a fix for Ethereum-style gas fees, and expects Q2 hardware wallet support for Catalyst voting.
90 timestamps 24:52 2021-02-12 UPD 02/12/2021
  • Mid February 2021 update: the Mary hard fork lands native multi asset at the end of the month, plus a new protocol to pay transaction fees in native tokens.
  • March is all about Goguen go to market, with the Plutus testnet, Alonzo in Q2, and Alpha Frontier work with Runtime Verification on Yella, the KEVM, and the K specification language.
44 timestamps 1:54:41 2021-02-09 AMA 02/09/2021
  • Point to Tesla's bitcoin buy and growing Fortune 500 interest as proof institutional crypto adoption is now unstoppable.
  • Lay out the roadmap ahead: the Mary testnet nearing its February hard fork, Daedalus getting native multi asset support, and Plutus smart contracts targeting the Alonzo hard fork in Q2 2021.
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