Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

48:17 2026-04-24 Uncomfortable Wisdom from Moxie
  • He reads Moxie Marlinspike's January 2022 My First Impressions of Web3 essay, praising it as the piece that convinced him to buy Blockfrost.
  • The essay's core: people will never run their own servers, so Web3 consolidates around off-chain platforms like Infura, Alchemy, and OpenSea, becoming the worst of both worlds.
42 timestamps 30:13 2026-04-24 Remember Kids, X isn't reality
  • From the Gillette clinic before a San Diego stem cell trip, he pitches the nine Input Output proposals as one system where cutting pieces breaks the whole car.
  • He argues X is not reality, filled with bots and bad actors who attack unpaid ambassadors, unlike Midnight's positive multi-chain Discord community.
34 timestamps 27:12 2026-04-21 Kelp DAO Hack
  • He breaks down the 292 million dollar KelpDAO hack, the year's largest DeFi exploit, using an AI-generated website that walks through the root cause analyses.
  • The exploit was a cross-chain message forgery, not a smart contract bug, made possible by KelpDAO using a single one-of-one LayerZero verifier configuration.
31 timestamps 51:44 2026-04-03 332
  • He uses a Chain X and Project Y parable to argue that a project giving 50% of its supply and block rewards would be an obvious gift, and that project is Midnight on Cardano.
  • He returns to the number 332, the percent return the ecosystem lost by rejecting his sovereign wealth fund when ADA was 83 cents before falling to 25.
51 timestamps 1:06:08 2026-03-27 Weekly Rollup
  • A wide-ranging weekly rollup: Midnight's guarded launch is in final load testing, and Fluid did the first trustless Bitcoin to ADA atomic swap on mainnet.
  • He details the Argentina saga, revealing he passed on the Hayden Davis proposal that became Libra, and that a subpoenaed unsigned contract now bears his name.
64 timestamps 26:24 2026-03-23 Midnight Launch Week
  • He declares the week of March 23 Midnight week, as the federated mainnet turns on step by step like landing a space shuttle.
  • Federated node operators including Google Cloud, Telegram, and MoneyGram run the guarded mainnet while daily go no-go meetings confirm stable consensus.
28 timestamps 37:57 2026-03-20 Live from Warm Sunny Colorado
  • A philosophical pep talk that the world is on fire with wars, layoffs, and fear, but every generation faces its crisis, using a man born in 1899 as the example.
  • He argues AI now augments every average person into an exceptional one, and demonstrates it by generating a 40-page Sui feasibility paper in 90 minutes.
42 timestamps 1:08:46 2026-03-10 Cardano Funding 2026
  • A whiteboard framework for the 2026 Cardano budget built on three layers, infrastructure, utility, and experiences, arguing the ecosystem has overfunded infrastructure and starved the other two.
  • His core proposal is Pentad V2: a treasury-owned weighted index that invests ADA into DApps in exchange for oversight, salary cuts, alignment on privacy and Bitcoin DeFi, and revenue that buys ADA back.
81 timestamps 29:01 2026-03-06 Update on Pentad
  • Sets the record straight on the Pentad: ADA's fall from 83 cents to 25 cents shrank its value from 58 million to 18 million, so every member is now out of pocket.
  • Rejects reimbursing Iagon for a separate Fireblocks integration negotiated outside the Pentad, since even the members got no subsidy and carry the multi-year liabilities.
30 timestamps 29:13 2026-01-18 Happy Sunday
  • A Sunday pep talk in a crypto slump: every mountain needs a valley, and he shares Midnight roadmap progress on universal privacy tech, intents, and smart compliance.
  • Having uninstalled Twitter for 18 days, he rails against a culture of toxic learned hopelessness and argues monopolies in tech are never permanent.
34 timestamps 32:09 2026-01-01 Happy New Year and Farewell
  • A New Year's Eve reflection from the ranch: 2025 was the hardest year of his life, and he is not leaving crypto but is saying farewell to X, handing it to curators and AI.
  • He returns to first principles, that crypto exists to give back freedom of association, commerce, and expression, and criticizes guilt-by-association and the silence around Trump coin.
36 timestamps 30:25 2025-12-19 Rays of Sunshine in 2026
  • Midnight is leading the market for the first time, worth more than Aleo, zkSync, StarkNet, and Mina combined despite having just launched.
  • It is not a privacy coin but a platform for private intents, hybrid applications, and selective disclosure that can 10x Cardano DeFi.
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