Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs
335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours
335 videos
55:29 2019-05-20 AMA 05/20/2019 - Charles returns from a rough Mongolia and New York trip, plans to cut travel after July, and wants IOHK to focus on closing its backlog of deals.
- Shelley testnet is targeted for June, backed by a Kudelski security audit, a wallet backend rewrite, and a final OBFT hot patch before the Byron era closes out.
22:21 2019-05-16 UPD 05/16/2019 - Recaps Consensus 2019, noting the shift toward enterprise attendees, heavy-handed conference security, and a growing preference for Asian and smaller industry events.
- Corrects crypto press misreporting on a Mongolia MOU, clarifying real talks with local blockchain groups and praising Pharma Trust's counterfeit medicine work.
16:27 2019-05-14 UPD 05/14/2019 - Polymath and Cardano are complementary, not competing: Polymath brings three years of security token experience and a likely market standard, and IOHK needs to be at the table when those standards are written.
- Regulated markets like the United States and Europe will need special purpose hybrid blockchains that can reverse transactions and freeze accounts, powers Cardano itself must never have, while emerging economies like Mongolia and Ethiopia can trade securities at the public protocol level.
12:47 2019-05-05 UPD 05/05/2019 - Shelley is late because Cardano is built on new research in the open, where every unfinished iteration is visible, unlike the hidden R&D behind consumer products.
- More than 50 full time engineers work on Cardano and none of them were moved to Atala: the two projects use separate codebases, and staff have actually moved from Atala to Cardano.
1:54:31 2019-04-25 AMA 04/25/2019 - Confirms Shelley ships in 2019, keeps staking keys separate from spending keys, and dedicates 2019 to shipping Plutus and Marlowe while pausing the KEVM and Yield research contract until 2020
- Breaks down the Tether and Bitfinex NYAG investigation in detail and the risk a Bitfinex collapse poses to crypto's shared liquidity
1:50:25 2019-04-21 AMA 04/21/2019 - Opens with a summit recap (roughly 750 attendees, the Ethiopia MoU, and Atala) then gives a long defense of Shelley's delays, comparing them to Windows Vista and the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
- Explains the overhauled roadmap process: demos, weekly reports, a new internal director of engineering, and a two client model that lets the Rust client move faster than the formal spec.
1:48:17 2019-03-31 AMA 03/31/2019 - Reports steady progress on Shelley decentralization, the Rust wallet backend, and Ledger hardware wallet support ahead of the IOHK Summit
- Lays out the vision for Goguen: a Plutus and Marlowe powered smart contract platform with an app store style Adapter experience and built in contingent settlement
54:43 2019-03-24 Surprise AMA 03/24/2019 - A surprise Sunday AMA from a delayed flight at the Turkish Airlines lounge, recapping the graduated Ethiopia Haskell class and the Africa agriculture pilots.
- Lay out the path to Shelley: the Rust testnet, stake pool saturation, a Kudelski audit, and a launch strategy that waits for a healthy distribution before decentralizing.
1:23:32 2019-03-12 AMA 03/12/2019 - Confirms the Shelley testnet and the 1.5 release are on track for this month, with Ledger hardware wallet support and the IOHK Summit following soon after
- Details interoperability research (NIPoPoW side chains), the extended UTXO model behind Plutus smart contracts, and a layered formal methods pipeline from LaTeX specs to QuickCheck testing
11:39 2019-02-26 JBC 02/26/2019 - Building Cardano with parallel teams and multiple implementations is deliberate: it prevents a monoculture, creates competitive pressure, and forces real specifications instead of a single reference client.
- The community proved it can act on its own, from the Cardano Guardians pushing Michael Parsons out of the Cardano Foundation to the stake pool task force that drew over a thousand volunteers in a week and a half.
1:10:40 2019-02-18 CC 02/18/2019 - Cardano is a third generation cryptocurrency, built to scale to billions of users, interoperate with legacy finance, and govern and fund itself without a leader at the top.
- Shelley is a spectrum, not a switch: an OBFT hard fork, candidate specifications in Rust, Haskell and Scala, a staking testnet in Q1 and an external security audit come before mainnet decentralization arrives epoch by epoch.
1:54:02 2019-02-16 AMA 02/16/2019 - Shelley staking is arriving in stages: Ledger hardware wallet support, node releases, complete formal specifications, and a Rust first testnet, with end of 2020 as a realistic deadline for the whole first generation roadmap.
- Cardano's spec driven, formally verified approach trades speed for rigor, but the company reorganized engineering leadership and processes to ship faster without losing that rigor.