Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs
335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours
335 videos
3:34:10 2025-04-23 Surprise AMA 04/23/2025 - Back from the Amazon and the Satere-Mawe bullet ant ceremony, he frames the 2025 budget as a referendum and refuses to be a time and materials contractor.
- He rejects the RFP push as bike shedding by immature institutions, proposing a coalition smart contract and finishing the original roadmap instead.
37:04 2025-03-20 CDS level 10 - Provoked by a Medium article accusing him of buying authorship, he defends his co-author credit on the Papua New Guinea meteorite spherule paper with Avi Loeb's team.
- He argues it is an interdisciplinary paper where the sea salvage side, which he funded and helped design, earns academic merit alongside the Harvard geology analysis.
30:17 2025-03-06 Japan - He confirms he was not invited to the March 7 White House crypto summit and argues such optics driven events do little real policy work.
- Durable crypto policy comes from the legislative branch: the stablecoin and market structure bills, not executive summits, and it must span administrations like the 1933 Securities Act.
28:32 2025-02-22 Secure Voting in US Elections - Answering whether blockchain can secure American elections, he says maybe, but only as a hybrid of secure identity, registration, paper, and blockchain.
- He disputes the Ron Rivest and Neha Narula MIT paper, arguing a well wired hybrid system does add value where they claim it does not.
31:40 2025-02-21 Community Notes - Reacting to Musk wanting to gut X Community Notes, he defends swarm curation and lays out a multimodal truth engine to fix it.
- The blueprint combines four layers: swarm intelligence, a critical thinking AI like Grok, prediction markets, and veracity bonds that put money on a claim.
52:03 2025-02-20 Treasury Questions - Answers a viewer's two treasury questions: who owns what the treasury funds, and where the path to sustainability is, using a choose-your-own-adventure of no one, everyone, or you decide.
- Lays out ownership options from open-source grants to special purpose vehicles holding IP, and says DReps and the constitutional committee decide it during budget reconciliation under ZIP 1694.
32:32 2025-02-20 Post-Quantum Cardano - Lays out how to make Cardano post-quantum as quantum computing heats up, noting NIST just finalized the FIPS 203 to 206 standards.
- Explains that adopting one post-quantum signature does not make you quantum secure, since security is always relative to a defined adversary and its capabilities.
52:22 2025-02-13 Thinking Tools - A deliberately non-crypto video arguing that everyone is damaged by relentless propaganda, and that AI is a thinking tool that can restore empathy and critical thinking if we choose to use it.
- He walks through a ChatGPT analysis of a pro-Elon DOGE meme, showing how the model surfaces nuance, legal limits, SCIF clearance concerns, and international comparisons a partisan glance misses.
35:54 2025-02-10 The Social Consequences of Constant Criticism - A raw, angry message about a good friend of seven years, the contributor known as northpool, quitting the Cardano community after two years of unpaid constitution work drew only naked criticism.
- His thesis: criticism is fine, but you owe an alternative, and criticizing people's work again and again until they quit destroys value and burns down the ecosystem.
40:57 2025-02-04 The Other Side of Elon Musk - A balancing video on Elon Musk, admiring his genius at SpaceX and Neuralink while naming the neurotic, narcissistic side that emerges when a powerful figure loses honest checks around him.
- He offers a method against derangement syndromes: ask why someone said a thing, honestly rate how much you actually know, and find empathy before judging the message versus the messenger.
45:20 2025-02-04 PRD and the Lies of Process - A furious takedown of the Wyoming stable token procurement, arguing Cardano was disqualified for lacking a freeze-and-seize feature that a hidden product requirements document never disclosed.
- He explains any smart contract chain can satisfy such a requirement in about two weeks, as demoed at the University of Wyoming, so hiding the PRD and self-qualifying vendors was rigged.
2:34:44 2025-02-02 Surprise AMA 02/02/2025 - A wide-ranging February surprise AMA that opens on Cardano's three post-Plomin priorities, ratifying the constitution, roadmap, and annual budget as the consent of the governed.
- He delivers a long, detailed indictment of the Wyoming stablecoin process as a nepotistic CBDC, announcing an Integrity PAC to reform state procurement and back candidates.