Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs
335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours
335 videos
40:46 2025-12-15 Some End of Year Thoughts - 2025 was the hardest year for the industry: institutional money stuck to Bitcoin and never trickled down to altcoins.
- Trumpcoin and World Liberty Financial made crypto partisan, turning good regulation into ethics fights.
40:23 2025-12-11 Addiction to Bad Faith; the evil of algorithms - Midnight launched on Cardano bigger than Algorand, but Twitter met the win with a pathological addiction to bad faith.
- He will hand part of his X account to an AI digital twin, Project Simulacra, and move engagement into moderated Discords.
38:15 2025-12-01 Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series) - The Pentad of Input Output, the Cardano Foundation, Emurgo, Intersect, and the Midnight Foundation is the emerging executive function for Cardano.
- Its first pass fail test is collectively bargaining for critical infrastructure like bridges, stablecoins, and oracles.
50:36 2025-11-25 Midnight, Unison, FBI, and Tweets - Midnight's Glacier Drop was the largest token distribution ever, with 8 million addresses, and Night lists on tier one exchanges December 8th.
- A viral tweet and the FBI meme shifted Twitter off the chain split, and Solana joined the banter as cooperation grows behind the scenes.
55:33 2025-11-24 Preventing Future Issues: Where Good Engineering meets Governance - A consensus bug from 2022 split Cardano into two histories last week, but the network self healed without a hard fork or manual reset.
- The three jobs are prevent, detect, and fix; detection is the weakest, so 2026 needs a canary network and a pub sub protocol.
50:24 2025-11-24 Poison Piggy - After Action Report - Charles reads Pi Lanningham's Poison Piggy postmortem of the 14 hour chain split, which delayed transactions up to 400 seconds but never halted Cardano.
- A serialization bug from November 2024 let an overly long hash through, and the attacker Homer J deployed it on mainnet against Charles's RATS pool despite a fix existing.
42:11 2025-11-24 Code is Law - Code is not law in Cardano; the on chain ratified constitution is the highest law and defines the intended use of the system.
- Users live in jurisdictions and keep their life, liberty, and property rights, so reporting an exploit to law enforcement is legitimate.
25:25 2025-11-15 Markets - Market crashes are noise: the long term trend is up as crypto grows from 550 million toward a billion users by 2030.
- Selling crypto for fiat means opting back into a dishonest system of debt, money printing, and surveillance.
2:59:56 2025-11-11 Surprise AMA 11/11/2025 - On 11/11 he previews the Midnight Summit and frames Midnight as the fourth generation, adding rational privacy and cooperative economics.
- He details Midnight's architecture, Dust and the capacity exchange, a GPU over ASIC bet, Jolteon consensus, and a recursive SNARK bridge to Cardano.
1:02:45 2025-10-31 X Questions - Answers an adversarial post claiming seven flaws, arguing most are outdated or false and that Midnight resolves interoperability and exchange listings.
- The real problem is Cardano's own users not using Cardano DeFi, and no one being accountable for growth, not the technology.
30:10 2025-10-30 The Best Days are Ahead of Us - Crypto's manic price cycles are noise; the macro of adoption, technology, and decentralization improves every year.
- The industry exists because the old institutions are failing, and it answers whether you can feel safe and own your money.
1:58:10 2025-10-15 Live with Crypto Crow - Fresh from Asia and a Token 2049 takeover, he says Cardano's metrics are misreported and Midnight is opening it up with over 100 deals.
- He recounts the trifecta history and why the Swiss controlled Cardano Foundation, with its trapped 600 million ADA and unelected board, does nothing, so Intersect and Midnight replace it.