Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

1:31:49 2020-09-08 AMA 09/08/2020
  • Charles gives a Cardano roadmap update covering Goguen, Voltaire ballots, an October Catalyst DC Fund vote, and a $125,000 donation to launch the Haskell Foundation.
  • He explains new marketing hire Lisa's role, splitting IOG's product marketing from the Cardano Foundation's campaign marketing, and praises the community's grassroots roadmap effort.
96 timestamps 2:06:25 2020-08-30 AMA 08/30/2020
  • August 2020 recap: Cardano node 1.19 ships with major performance gains, hardware wallet support expands, and the network keeps decentralizing toward d equals zero.
  • Goguen development ramps up across native assets, Plutus, formal verification tooling, and a new DeFi push including an Emurgo stablecoin partnership.
135 timestamps 2:03:06 2020-08-14 AMA 08/14/2020
  • Recaps a strong week: Shelley has been live since July 29, the decentralization parameter is climbing toward 0.9, and over 100 stake pools are already producing blocks.
  • Commits to helping rescue Ethereum Classic from repeated 51% attacks while keeping its Mantis team and roadmap fully independent from Cardano.
111 timestamps 1:30:08 2020-08-01 AMA 08/01/2020
  • Frames August 2020 as a Shelley stabilization month, with node performance patches, exchange integration fixes, and staking rewards beginning August 3rd.
  • Lays out Goguen's native asset and Plutus rollout plans alongside multisig, one to many delegation, and Daedalus security upgrades using FIDO keys.
90 timestamps 1:08:43 2020-07-26 Saturday Night Live
  • A late-night surprise AMA on the eve of the Shelley launch, with the software cut and the hard fork set for July 29th.
  • Lay out the roadmap: an October hard fork for multi-sig and native assets, a Daedalus voting center, and scaled-up teams.
47 timestamps 2:04:38 2020-07-05 AMA 07/05/2020
  • Recaps the Cardano Summit's surprise turnout, growing from 4,000 to over 10,100 registrations, and reiterates the Shelley era momentum and the goal of leading DeFi within 12 months.
  • Explores in progress native asset experiments including an algorithmic stablecoin on Ergo and a basket stablecoin, and pitches ideas for new ecosystem podcasts on Plutus development and governance.
139 timestamps 1:34:04 2020-06-29 AMA 06/29/2020
  • note the five year push to mainnet is nearly over, with Cardano Summit registrations already six times last year's turnout
  • walk through circulating supply math, stake pool saturation tuning, and upcoming smart contract language support including Plutus, F#, and WebAssembly
164 timestamps 33:25 2020-06-28 Welcome to the Mess of Voting
  • Explain the ITN reward-extension vote, born from a miscalculation that cut the testnet's life ten days short of its Blade-Runner-themed end.
  • Frame it as a three-stage decision showing how hard rapid on-chain governance is versus crypto's strength at staying consistent.
25 timestamps 57:50 2020-06-24 INT 06/24/2020
  • Charles Hoskinson lays out Cardano's three founding pillars, scalability, interoperability and sustainability, and walks through the Shelley hard fork timeline for July and August 2020.
  • He traces the research behind Ouroboros proof of stake, from the GKL security paper to Oxford incentive economics, and argues it beats proof of work on efficiency, decentralization and incentive alignment.
46 timestamps 2:34:48 2020-06-20 AMA 06/20/2020
  • Insist the Incentivized Testnet's fate, whether to keep funding stake pool operators or let it lapse, is entirely up to the community via a hard fork vote, not his call.
  • Push back hard on Twitter accusations that Cardano is secretly diluting ADA holders with a second coin, calling the claims lies from people who never thought it through.
148 timestamps 1:11:33 2020-06-16 AMA 06/16/2020
  • Confirm Shelley's mainnet hard fork is locked in for July 29, calling it the culmination of five years of work and a milestone shared with the whole community.
  • Announce a free Cardano virtual summit with over a hundred speakers including Stephen Wolfram, and tease Voltaire era updates from EMURGO.
82 timestamps 2:19:43 2020-06-09 AMA 06/09/2020
  • Lay out concrete Shelley mainnet and hard fork dates, insisting the launch shipped exactly when the engineering was ready, not sooner.
  • Explain that Cardano has no single primary market, positioning the open protocol as infrastructure for the roughly three billion people worldwide without economic identity.
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