Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs
335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours
335 videos
32:21 2024-11-01 The Profane Unaccountability of Social Media - A Halloween rant sparked by a meme coin made from his Where's-Waldo costume photo, arguing meme coins are pure pump-and-dump with no utility and never will have any.
- He contrasts them with Cardano's on-chain government and seven-year network as real infrastructure, insisting a tweet about a token is never an endorsement.
1:04:15 2024-10-13 Cardano Blockchain Tenets - A whiteboard walkthrough of the 11 blockchain tenets, a blockchain Bill of Rights co-authored with Aggelos Kiayias to guide Cardano's constitution and on-chain governance.
- He works through each tenet, from uncensorable expedient transactions and predictable fees to fair recognition of contributions, consent over your data, and privacy.
42:31 2024-09-02 Next Steps Post-Chang - A whiteboard walkthrough of where Cardano sits in the Chang roadmap, explaining the bootstrap phase and the Chang-plus-one hard fork about 90 days out that fully turns on DReps.
- He lays out the seven governance actions, which are limited during bootstrap, and how the Argentina constitutional convention will produce a V1 constitution to ratify on-chain.
33:31 2024-09-01 One small step for Cardano; One giant leap for the industry - On September 1 2024 he marks Cardano's governance independence day as the Chang hard fork approaches, handing every ADA holder an equal say over the protocol's future.
- He frames governance as humanity's unsolved problem and Voltaire as the biggest governance experiment in the industry, a self-evolving machine improving at the speed of the internet.
44:02 2024-08-23 End of the Line and the Next Steps for 2024 - From the SALT conference, he reacts to RFK's expected withdrawal and endorsement of Trump, refusing to fall in line and endorse a candidate he does not believe in.
- He indicts a broken bipartisan uniparty that weaponizes lawfare and the ballot, from Choke Point 2.0 against crypto to DNC efforts that kept third parties off the ballot.
1:22:04 2024-08-15 THE BREAK DOWN #467 - Hoskinson's biweekly interview on THE BREAK DOWN with host David, opening on his Guatemala volcano climb and jungle-warfare course before turning to the 2024 election.
- He dissects the polls as Trump-versus-not-Trump, explaining oversampling, the shy Trump voter, and how Kamala Harris became a policy-free candidate nobody voted for.
1:51:00 2024-08-09 Back in the office: AMA 08/09/2024 - A two-hour AMA back in the office after a Latin America trip that locked in the Buenos Aires law school for December's Constitutional Convention.
- He lays out a decentralized-truth meta-protocol combining prediction markets, veracity bonds, Daniel Miessler's substrate framework, and AI to fight misinformation.
1:39:48 2024-07-18 THE BREAK DOWN #461 - Hoskinson's THE BREAK DOWN interview days after the Trump assassination attempt, dissecting the Secret Service failures, suspicious short-selling, and whether it was incompetence or an inside job.
- He handicaps the race as Biden stepping down, floats a Trump-Kennedy dream ticket, and analyzes JD Vance and the VP shortlist.
1:34:55 2024-07-03 THE BREAK DOWN #451 - Hoskinson's biweekly THE BREAK DOWN interview, opening on the Biden debate as confirmation of the dementia he recognized from his own grandparents' decline.
- He explains the Supreme Court gutting the Chevron doctrine as a nuclear bomb across the administrative state that weakens the SEC and helps crypto's court wins.
26:59 2024-07-01 Roadmaps and Polarization - He argues Cardano is nearly done with its original decade-long roadmap across scalability, interoperability, and governance, and that critics grow loudest precisely as completion nears.
- He walks the eras from Byron through Voltaire, claiming each goal was achieved, with Chang about to turn on the largest on-chain government in the industry.
37:41 2024-06-03 Fauci and Science - A June 2024 solo essay responding to Meta's Yann LeCun, arguing the attacks on Anthony Fauci are not anti-science but a legitimate demand to investigate COVID's origins.
- Walks through the lab-leak evidence: the DEFUSE proposal to DARPA, EcoHealth and the Wuhan Institute, and the Proximal Origins paper coordinated with Fauci and Francis Collins while evading FOIA.
29:36 2024-05-01 Ouroboros Leios (Sneak Peak) - A May 2024 whiteboard sneak peek at the just-submitted Ouroboros Leios paper, the input-endorsers work aimed at a lasting solution to the blockchain trilemma.
- Explains the two attacks that keep blockchains at low throughput, protocol burst and message equivocation, and how Leios's five mechanisms neutralize both to drive network utilization toward optimal.