Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

19:59 2026-06-20 AI Slop, IOG X, and the Future of Marketing
  • A defense of the Input Output X account after it posted an AI generated influencer for Midnight City that the community received very negatively.
  • IO has stripped away its old legal review pipeline and downsized the account to about two people, empowered to move fast and experiment like a startup.
20 timestamps 1:09:32 2026-06-17 On with Jason
  • An impromptu interview with the DRep Crow about why Cardano governance is failing and the plan to fix it with a bespoke governance space.
  • Three problems dominate: governance fatigue driving DReps to quit, no coherent strategy behind 600 million ADA of asks, and the loss of funding organizations like Catalyst.
25 timestamps 41:37 2026-06-16 More comments on Discord
  • A fourth video answering critics of the governance Discord, noting that everything said becomes business requirements an AI is turning into a product.
  • Andrew Westberg's dismissal misses that production governance tools like Semaphore V4 already exist and can be made interoperable for a version one.
18 timestamps 58:19 2026-06-15 Discord, Part 3
  • Part three details how the governance Discord functions, moving through three stages: ideation, a closed beta, and an open launch.
  • To stop leaks that manufacture scandals from unformed ideas, it uses Chatham House rules enforced by zero knowledge anonymity, so opinions carry no attribution.
22 timestamps 1:16:09 2026-06-14 Discord Part 2
  • Part two lays out the practical steps for migrating Cardano governance to a bespoke space, starting by designing conduct tied to a social contract.
  • A governance conversation needs finiteness and convergence to a milestone, and statistical inclusion that yields legitimacy, none of which X provides.
30 timestamps 1:01:12 2026-06-13 Discord, Governance, and Community Management
  • A whiteboard argument that Cardano governance fails because it lives on X, a broadcast channel whose reward is spectacle, ego, and win lose conflict.
  • Real governance needs a bespoke heterotopia, a purpose built space for effective conversation, which requires empathy, shared goals, and aligned incentives.
30 timestamps 1:48:36 2026-06-12 Surprise AMA 06/11/2026
  • A surprise AMA covering the state of RealFi, Pogen, and Midnight, alongside the planned migration of the community from X to a moderated Discord.
  • Midnight City is a major theme, an agent to agent world with personality tests, private NFTs, and agentic trading that becomes watchable like the Truman Show.
36 timestamps 1:07:32 2026-06-09 Why Cardano is the only Ecosystem that can run the world
  • The markets reflect an existential crisis about whether crypto matters at all, and the argument is that Cardano is the only ecosystem that can solve the real problem.
  • That problem is the cost of trust, hundreds of billions a year in audits, insurance, and institutions, and the solution is verifiable reflexivity, where a transaction carries its own proof of being correct.
39 timestamps 26:02 2026-06-04 No I am not leaving
  • A reassurance that he is okay and not leaving Cardano, after a toxicity analysis showed nearly one in three replies to him are hostile or abusive, with signs of coordination.
  • He is stepping back from X and public videos to reflect, because the platform has become a toxic hellscape that takes a real psychological toll.
23 timestamps 26:11 2026-06-02 TapTools
  • Reacting to TapTools winding down after losing its CTO and COO, he frames it as the start of a wave of Cardano project failures in a bad market.
  • He insists he has no agency to fix it: no governance keys, no treasury access, not even the Cardano trademark, since all the growth funding went to other entities.
32 timestamps 26:12 2026-05-27 Hoskinson Health
  • He announces the Hoskinson Health Center in Gillette, Wyoming is shutting down, a family clinic he built with his doctor father and brother.
  • The model was never profitable: primary care must see 24-28 patients a day just to break even, and insurance reimbursements often fall below the cost of care.
32 timestamps 45:50 2026-05-22 Happy Voting
  • A final pitch for the Input Output budget proposals, arguing they fund the last miles of decentralizing Cardano's development and research.
  • He contrasts Midnight's fun, unified execution and 9 billion dollar launch with Cardano's toxic, leaderless governance that vilifies him no matter what he does.
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