Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

1:30:20 2020-06-05 AMA 06/05/2020
  • Announce the Cardano virtual summit for July 2nd and 3rd with guests Vint Cerf, Stephen Wolfram and a reunion of the original Haskell committee, and confirm Shelley has shipped
  • Lay out the plan to decentralize governance and hand more control to the community through Voltaire, Catalyst and the CIP process
95 timestamps 1:47:52 2020-05-29 AMA 05/29/2020
  • Confirms the Shelley mainnet launch for June 30 (backup July 7), with the hard fork combinator test on the 23rd and the hard fork itself on July 29, plus the Pioneer testnet opening June 9.
  • Defends Cardano's fairness principle and self sovereignty philosophy against San Francisco style centralized tech culture, and later argues social media platforms should become open, censorship resilient protocols.
115 timestamps 2:07:02 2020-05-17 AMA 05/17/2020
  • Pioneer testnet is nearing block production with Shelley mainnet targeted for the following month, staking to begin about four weeks after launch via the hard fork combinator.
  • Deep dive on proof of stake mechanics, endogenous versus exogenous security, and future ledger scaling plans using recursive SNARKs, sharding and layer two solutions like Hydra.
105 timestamps 1:09:38 2020-05-12 Legends of Valour and Other Stuff (Not Cardano)
  • A gaming-focused episode, explicitly not about Cardano, on his passion project to revive the 1992 RPG Legends of Valour, which he bought.
  • Recount the code archaeology after the source was lost and the plan for a browser-friendly enhanced edition built in PureScript and Babylon.js.
42 timestamps 31:54 2020-05-07 Marketing and Adoption
  • Refuse to do marketing for people who only want ADA's price to rise, since real adoption comes from building genuinely useful technology.
  • Frame blockchain's core as brokering trust among people who distrust each other, using covid, voting, and stimulus payments as examples.
27 timestamps 2:37:10 2020-05-04 AMA 05/04/2020
  • Walk through practical Cardano mechanics: wallet recovery versus spending passwords, the Ambassador Program's funding path, and Plutus's decision to skip refinement types in favor of simpler verifiable DSLs like Marlowe.
  • Defend Shelley's staged rollout toward a May testnet and dismiss trolls and bad research sites like coindecide claiming Cardano has not launched.
108 timestamps 1:48:22 2020-04-26 AMA 04/26/2020
  • reports Daedalus 1.0 has shipped successfully, with sync times mostly between 50 minutes and 1 hour 20 minutes and Windows 7 and 8 no longer supported.
  • directly addresses reddit backlash over the Root9B audit and explains the plan to keep rotating external auditors alongside IOHK's own internal audit team.
122 timestamps 2:45:08 2020-04-19 AMA 04/19/2020
  • Push out the Byron reboot and lay out a concrete week by week path to Shelley mainnet in 2020, dismissing critics who claim the project keeps delaying.
  • Explain how stake pool rewards, transaction fees and future services like Hydra channels keep Cardano sustainable after the fixed ADA supply is minted.
150 timestamps 32:15 2020-04-12 UPD 04/12/2020
  • The Byron reboot is rolling out successfully, with flight release candidates, Windows sync improvements, and node 1.10, and it is validating the design and process model.
  • Because the reboot shares its network stack and wallet backend with Shelley, Shelley infrastructure is effectively already being tested on mainnet.
48 timestamps 2:01:53 2020-04-03 AMA 04/03/2020
  • Recap a marketing overhaul with McCann, PwC and April Six to rebrand Cardano ahead of the Shelley launch.
  • Give status updates on the Byron reboot, the RuntimeVerification audit, and the Shelley Haskell testnet rollout plan.
148 timestamps 5:20 2020-04-02 UPD 03/04/2020
  • The third annual ZKProof workshop moved from London to a virtual Home Edition because of coronavirus, running April 20th to May 21st, and everyone should attend at least one session.
  • Zero knowledge cryptography is the most applied research in the space, because it is the only long term way to keep inclusive accountability, privacy and scalability as blockchains grow beyond what a normal user can verify.
6 timestamps 40:15 2020-03-31 UPD 03/31/2020
  • Recaps the first live product update stream (Byron reboot, Daedalus Flight, Hydra) and announces monthly crowdcast Q&A events going forward.
  • Explains the split between Cardano 2020 (single-vendor foundation) and CCI (an open, multi-vendor ecosystem), warning against platform monoculture.
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