Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

54:58 2025-10-13 Bots Bots Bots, AI Slop, and the Death of the Internet
  • The internet is dying as bots reach 45 to 64% of X and AI slop floods every feed, heading toward 100% by 2030.
  • The fix is decentralized identifiers and proof of humanity, splitting the web into an agent ledger and a humanity ledger of NFTs and DIDs.
45 timestamps 27:35 2025-10-10 Update on US Market Structure Bill
  • Back from an Asia tour, he warns the Senate Democrats' DeFi counter proposal to the Clarity Act would effectively ban DeFi.
  • It would make every developer and front end, including non custodial wallets, a regulated intermediary forced to KYC users.
23 timestamps 1:09:52 2025-09-02 On Alternative Clients and Nodes
  • He affirms he has always supported client diversity, evidenced by the formal specifications, and never opposed alternative nodes.
  • The original plan was a one to n rollout through Intersect's steering committees, derailed when Pragma formed and the CF refused to join.
51 timestamps 2:58:26 2025-08-31 Surprise AMA 8/31/2025
  • The Glacier Drop hit 1.76 billion Night with 42% from non Cardano chains, and IO's forensic audit of the ADA voucher program is about to be released.
  • The Leios CIP promises 30 to 65x throughput, built with a 24/7 AI assisted follow the sun team.
77 timestamps 1:29:43 2025-08-23 Surprise AMA 08/22/2025
  • Fresh from a Federal Reserve roundtable at Salt, he reports strong Midnight redemptions, a Copper custody partnership, and talks with Chainlink and Near.
  • The Cardano Foundation was excluded from the Night token because it would be adversarial and its ADA ownership under Swiss control is unclear.
51 timestamps 29:43 2025-06-16 Brief Whiteboard on CSWF
  • Cardano's 1.7 billion ADA treasury is passive, single asset, and unmanaged, which is unsafe: its buying power fell from 5 billion when ADA dropped from 3 dollars to 25 cents.
  • A Sovereign Wealth Fund would actively manage a percentage, alpha, diversifying into stablecoins, Bitcoin, and yield via a three step divest, purchase, and place process.
26 timestamps 2:14:58 2025-06-15 Surprise AMA 06/15/2025
  • He hammers that Cardano must get serious about stablecoins and liquidity, its number one problem, since a 100 million deployment will not crash the market.
  • Midnight would elsewhere be celebrated, and CNTs are excluded from its drop to bring outside layer ones in, not pick winners.
65 timestamps 2:45:08 2025-06-08 Surprise AMA 06/08/2025
  • A marathon June 2025 AMA: Cardano decentralized so hard it lost its executive branch, and now people are realizing some executive function must be added back under the legislative branch's consent.
  • He details the Bitcoin DeFi stack (Fairgate, BitVMX, taproot recursive proofs), the Cardano DeFi kernel, and why Midnight runs on Substrate rather than Cardano's monolith.
121 timestamps 2:28:44 2025-05-24 Surprise AMA 05/24/2025
  • A long May 2025 AMA weaving Cardano's missing executive function together with a proposed elected roadmap and KPI model to end governance toxicity.
  • He details the Bitcoin DeFi three layer stack, private stablecoins on Midnight, the market structure and securities bills, and Ouroboros Peras for fast finality.
138 timestamps 30:27 2025-05-20 Resilience and the Other Side
  • Speaking from Buenos Aires after the 600 million theft allegation storm, he calls crypto media unredeemable and pushes veracity bonds.
  • Ecosystem progress is real: StarStream, Midgard, BitVMX, and Leios, plus the Genius Act and a coming market structure bill.
26 timestamps 33:22 2025-05-17 Update from Argentina
  • From Argentina, he details the ADA voucher saga: sold via Attain in Japan, swept into a custodial account after Attain closed when Japan banned direct sales.
  • 99.8% of buyers got their ADA, the forfeited remainder went to the Intersect Dev Trust, and everything will be in a forthcoming audit report.
31 timestamps 38:50 2025-04-25 Product Development and Commercial Success in Tough Markets
  • He reframes the Cardano budget as a product vision, not a time and materials bill: you fund IO's strategy for how to win, and the price is the price.
  • A protocol competes against SUI, Aptos, Ethereum, and Solana for one pool of liquidity, so scalability, interoperability, and node diversification are competitive necessities.
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