Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

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

335 videos

2:34:41 2025-01-29 SpacePlace #145 Forking in Public
  • A community SpacePlace Space on January 29 2025 celebrating the Plomin hard fork going live, which fully unlocks on-chain governance and, by one measure, makes Cardano the most decentralized chain.
  • The hard fork is named Plomin to honor the late Matthew Plomin, a stablecoin founder and former Purdue student councilman, with his widow Jillian and community members paying tribute.
54 timestamps 29:18 2025-01-11 Some Thoughts on Wallets (Part 1)
  • A whiteboard walkthrough of Cardano's wallet architecture, layer by layer, previewing a series on wallets and a new HTML-based presentation style.
  • He lays out a multi-client future where users pick a wallet and choose a remote or self-hosted backend certified against a shared test suite, via an Intersect and Pragma working group.
31 timestamps 2:18:52 2024-12-27 Surprise AMA 12/26/2024
  • A two-hour day-after-Christmas surprise AMA from Wyoming, opening with his Gillette clinic and construction expansion before ranging across governance, technology, health, and philosophy.
  • He gives a detailed theory that the New Jersey drones are government assets hunting a radioactive source, possibly a nuclear weapon, tied to systemic distrust and generative-AI misinformation.
79 timestamps 37:33 2024-12-22 Partnerships
  • Responding to Rick McCracken, he rejects the idea that IO's philosophical fight with the Cardano Foundation means the ecosystem cannot form external partnerships, pointing to a full 2025 deal pipeline.
  • He reframes the dispute as a fight worth having over 600 million dollars of community money controlled by an unaccountable board, not a personal team-Hoskinson-versus-team-Foundation drama.
44 timestamps 37:25 2024-12-19 Closing Things Off
  • A final word on the Cardano Foundation dispute, detailing the 2021 lawsuit, the ESA administrator, and the compromise board he says the Swiss government effectively imposed.
  • His core objection is governance, not people: the Foundation's board cannot be elected, fired, or overseen by the community yet controls hundreds of millions and picks its own successors.
40 timestamps 37:31 2024-12-12 On Governance and 2025
  • Fresh from the Argentina Constitutional Convention, he calls the community-ratified constitution the proudest moment of his career and frames 2025 as the year to fully decentralize Cardano's governance.
  • He gives a candid history of the founding entities, taking blame for the tripartite design and detailing years of friction with the Cardano Foundation over membership, elections, and a rival constitution.
45 timestamps 29:26 2024-12-10 World Mobile
  • A Mario Nawfal roundtable Space premiering a World Mobile documentary on connecting hurricane-devastated communities in western North Carolina after the fiber and cellular grid was destroyed.
  • The team deployed Starlink-backed air nodes that restored connectivity in 10 to 30 minutes, letting stranded survivors reach loved ones, work FEMA could not do.
24 timestamps 25:27 2024-11-27 RWA and Cardano
  • Prompted by the Wyoming stablecoin freeze-and-seize dispute, he argues Cardano should add a native real world asset standard rather than forcing everything into bespoke smart contracts.
  • He credits Andrew Miller and Ethan Buchman's Cycles protocol, a graph-based multilateral clearing system, as a model for solving real-economy liquidity, and wants to pair it with Midnight's trusted enclaves.
26 timestamps 2:15:18 2024-11-17 Surprise AMA 11/17/2024
  • A marathon 135-minute surprise AMA closing out 2024, opening on a 2025 rebound with the constitutional convention weeks away in Buenos Aires and the CEDC budget coalition forming.
  • Lays out the tech year ahead: the age of Hydra with Hydra Doom, Midgard, and gummy worm, Ouroboros Leios prototyping, a Nintendo emulator, and Lace maturing with Nami mode and hardware paper wallets.
124 timestamps 33:40 2024-11-15 Healthcare is Wyoming and our Research
  • A dedicated video on Hoskinson Health and Wellness, his Gillette Wyoming clinic, which he built to merge rigorous allopathic medicine with functional and lifestyle medicine.
  • He explains a biotech arm running FDA trials on mesenchymal stem cells paired with hyperbarics for regenerative, anti-aging therapies he intends to sell nationwide.
28 timestamps 40:16 2024-11-09 I'm Back
  • Returning from a 40 Years of Zen meditation and ketamine retreat during his birthday and the election, he reflects on burnout and the toll of a cancer-for-Cardano poll.
  • He apologizes to the Bitcoin, XRP, and Cardano communities, vowing to stop speaking ill of them and to build bridges instead.
32 timestamps 2:02:56 2024-11-02 Surprise AMA 11/02/2024
  • A two-hour surprise AMA dominated by the budget debate, where he argues an annual budget with oversight beats a month-to-month model that no serious vendor or scientist would accept.
  • He details the Bitcoin OS integration, a zero-knowledge proof validated on Bitcoin mainnet that could enable a trustless bridge and hybrid apps bringing 1.3 trillion dollars of Bitcoin to Cardano.
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