Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

1:36:45 2020-03-25 AMA 03/25/2020
  • Charles broadcasts live from quarantined Colorado, previewing the March 31 live product management update and the imminent Byron reboot rolling launch.
  • He reports steady research output (62 papers, new pub/sub and post quantum signature work) and progress across Hydra, Voltaire, and smart contracts despite the pandemic.
52 timestamps 32:02 2020-03-23 Deadlines and Delays
  • Address the deadline criticism head-on: Cardano is a scientific project and science, like vaccine development, is inherently unpredictable and slow.
  • Recount the history: a 2017 two-prong bet where the Serokell fork proved unmaintainable, forcing a pivot to Cardano Rust, Icarus, and the evidence-based Haskell rebuild.
29 timestamps 1:33:48 2020-03-19 AMA 03/19/2020
  • Confirms Shelley's incentivized testnet hit roughly 1,100 registered stake pools and 95 to 99 percent network stability, with mainnet and the Haskell reboot coming next
  • Argues coronavirus's real damage will be economic, criticizing companies that skipped cash reserves while defending his own ranch based, low risk lifestyle
123 timestamps 1:11:44 2020-03-15 AMA 03/15/2020
  • Charles hosts a Sunday AMA during the early COVID 19 crash, arguing the crisis exposes an unsustainable financial system and that crypto will benefit once bank runs or restrictions eventually hit.
  • Confirms Shelley mainnet is on track, tracked via two week sprints and confidence intervals, with the Byron reboot shipping first as proof of code quality.
67 timestamps 17:40 2020-03-14 UPD 03/14/2020
  • fill in for delayed events with a quick weekly Cardano update video, correcting inaccurate GitHub commit tracking and pointing people to cardanoupdates.com for accurate numbers
  • announce new product managers across Voltaire, Basho and Hydra, plus a new IOHK CTO, and launch a CCCI initiative to fund commercially critical infrastructure
23 timestamps 9:54 2020-02-28 UPD 02/28/2020
  • The first Cardano development monthly update is out on YouTube, run by the product managers so the community hears directly from the people building each piece.
  • Coronavirus is at a global tipping point, so the March Africa tour moves to May and travel gets cut back, though the London PwC workshop with the Cardano Foundation and Emurgo still happens.
11 timestamps 25:57 2020-02-24 UPD 02/24/2020
  • The Byron reboot, containing the new wallet backend, is the second milestone on the road to Shelley and is targeted for mid-March pending QA and audit remediation.
  • The Shelley mainnet launch party is tentatively planned for Kyoto, though the coronavirus outbreak in Asia could force a change of location or timing.
34 timestamps 54:41 2020-02-16 AMA 02/16/2020
  • The OBFT hard fork lands in about five days with the fully rewritten Haskell node, and the Byron reboot update ships to Daedalus users next month.
  • IOHK donates $500,000 in ADA to the University of Wyoming, drawing matching funds for a trusted hardware and Plutus research lab, its fourth academic lab worldwide.
39 timestamps 32:13 2020-02-12 UPD 02/12/2020
  • Fresh from the Satoshi Roundtable, the industry feels like it is leaving crypto winter for a big 2020.
  • A major blog post announces the new Cardano node, wallet backend, explorer, and web API, the foundation for Shelley, with an Ouroboros BFT hard fork for exchanges on February 20.
45 timestamps 30:36 2020-02-04 UPD 02/04/2020
  • Cardano is built differently from the rest of the industry: peer-reviewed science first, then formal methods and specifications, then property-based tested code, plus third-party security audits.
  • That rigor added years to the roadmap, but it is now paying off: the OBFT hard fork is tentatively set for February 20th and the Byron reboot code should ship this month, followed by the Shelley Haskell testnet in two phases and then the Shelley mainnet.
33 timestamps 14:11 2020-02-03 UPD 02/03/2020
  • This week's Jormungandr update is skipped so a bundled Jormungandr, Daedalus and wallet backend release can ship next week, likely Friday.
  • The OBFT hard fork is tentatively set for February 20th, with the Byron reboot and its new Haskell wallet backend following shortly after.
16 timestamps 25:30 2020-01-27 UPD 01/27/2020
  • The Incentivized Testnet was always an alpha product for stake pool operators and delegators, not a consumer release, and it did its job: a tsunami of business and technical requirements now feeds the Haskell product.
  • The Haskell code is a completely different, formally validated codebase, and February brings two milestones, the OBFT hard fork and the Byron reboot, with firm Shelley mainnet dates to follow once estimation work matures.
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