Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

1:09:34 2019-10-21 AMA 10/21/2019
  • Announces the New Balance sneaker authentication app running live on the Cardano real chain network, calling it a real production blockchain deal, not a pilot
  • Lays out the roadmap: Cardano 1.7, the OBFT hard fork in November, a Haskell Shelley testnet in January, and Goguen smart contracts as the milestone after Shelley
105 timestamps 1:45:33 2019-10-06 AMA 10/06/2019
  • The delay FUD is wrong: Shelley ships this year, and the incentivized testnet is its first version, run as a sandbox so parameters can be changed without coordinating a hard fork.
  • Almost a hundred stake pools already run on the testnet, snapshot and participation details come in blog posts in mid October, and Daedalus holders will import into a reskinned testnet client.
113 timestamps 58:35 2019-08-30 AMA 08/30/2019
  • Announces the networking testnet ships mid September 2019, the final testnet before real Shelley staking begins.
  • Confirms a September 28th event in Sofia, Bulgaria to mark Byron's two year anniversary and reveal the Cardano 2020 roadmap plus the incentivized testnet launch date.
69 timestamps 1:36:02 2019-08-04 AMA 08/04/2019
  • Reports being back from a health focused break, down from 235 to 205 pounds, and runs through a Daedalus, Ouroboros BFT, Plutus and research update ahead of the Shelley launch.
  • Frames Shelley as the single top priority, insists the 2020 timeline still holds, and explains how a decentralized protocol can still be upgraded through an improvement proposal and voting process.
111 timestamps 7:17 2019-07-17 UPD 07/17/2019
  • Stepping away from Twitter, Facebook and Reddit for about a week is a vacation and an annual checkup, nothing more.
  • The rumors are false: no cancer, no heart disease, no exit scam, only gout, and anyone claiming otherwise is lying.
8 timestamps 13:59 2019-07-14 UPD 07/14/2019
  • Both codebases are moving fast: the Rust node testnet cuts a release almost weekly, and a stable Haskell Byron node plus the new wallet backend will let Cardano replace all of the legacy code.
  • Daedalus 1.6, the OBFT hard fork work and an independent economist review of the staking incentive scheme are the near term steps before Shelley.
16 timestamps 1:05:38 2019-07-04 AMA 07/04/2019
  • Recaps self node testnet growth, the new Haskell wallet backend, and an upcoming Daedalus staking GUI demo.
  • Lays out a staged marketing plan tied to Byron, Shelley, Goguen, and Voltaire era milestones.
61 timestamps 30:51 2019-06-18 AMA 06/18/2019
  • Recaps a Georgia trip that produced an academic credentialing pilot combining Atala and Cardano, ahead of a hackathon swing through Israel.
  • Gives a detailed Shelley update: the Rust client reaches a self node test net this week, with an open test network and incentive test net to follow before a Haskell siren test net in July.
33 timestamps 48:08 2019-06-06 UPD 06/06/2019
  • Walk through the newly released roadmap's five-era structure (Byron, Shelley, Goguen, Basho, Voltaire) and the shift from Gantt-chart planning to small agile research teams.
  • Report Shelley's self-node testnet rolling out with growing stake pool operator interest, alongside hackathons in Israel, Argentina, and Wyoming.
56 timestamps 1:55:08 2019-05-26 AMA 05/26/2019
  • The Shelley self node testnet is on track for June, starting with a testnet in a box you run locally, then a networked testnet, then the incentives layer before mainnet.
  • Cardano's bet is the functional programming world: Plutus and Marlowe target the hundreds of thousands of Haskell, Scala, OCaml and Clojure developers that Solidity never reached.
126 timestamps 41:57 2019-05-24 INT 05/24/2019
  • Cardano is a third generation cryptocurrency built with formal methods and peer review, and it has to carry the payment features of Bitcoin, the smart contract features of Ethereum, plus scalability, interoperability and a treasury.
  • Daedalus gets a heavy 2019 and 2020 upgrade path: multi-sig, hardware and paper wallet accounts, staking and a stake pool center, and eventually a treasury voting center.
44 timestamps 23:00 2019-05-21 UPD 05/21/2019
  • Shelley reaches users in three milestones: a self node you run locally, a single unified public testnet, and finally the incentive and reward scheme.
  • Two code bases converge on Shelley, a fast agile Rust client that is nearly ready for a testnet and a slower, formally specified Haskell client that is catching up through demo driven development.
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