Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs
335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours
335 videos
1:07:29 2024-04-10 Liquidity and Value - An April 2024 solo essay arguing the industry wrongly reduces a project's worth to its token price and CoinMarketCap rank, and that crypto needs a real macroeconomic notion of value, an EDI for value, drawing on Benjamin Graham's value investing.
- Lays out short-, mid-, and long-term ways to grow Cardano's liquidity: fair exchange listings, a self-balancing on-chain index of the top 50 native tokens, partner-chain bridges, and homegrown stablecoins like Djed and USDM.
48:11 2024-04-07 Hydra - An April 2024 solo video rebutting FUD that Hydra was quietly scrapped, pointing to the active hydra.family GitHub with 39 contributors and 19 tagged releases.
- Showcases Cardano's formal-methods rigor: the governance hard fork specified in Agda as a peer-reviewed paper, the first time a cryptocurrency has been formalized at this scale.
43:23 2024-04-03 Voting and Identity - An April 2024 explainer using a Blockchain Life Dubai poll the Cardano Foundation shared to show why legacy voting fails: sign-in required, no verification, and easy to fill with bots and shills.
- Walks through decentralized identity with Atala Prism and DIDs, the issuer-holder-verifier model, and AnonCreds that prove a single attribute like being over 21 without revealing anything else.
44:31 2024-04-02 Interesting Thread - An April 2024 point-by-point rebuttal of a Twitter thread from The Block is Hot listing the top five changes Cardano supposedly needs: stablecoins, scalability, top-down support, interoperability, and incentives.
- Concedes the real needs, deeper stablecoins and faster scaling via Hydra, ZK, and input endorsers, while debunking claims that congestion breaks the chain, that CNT exchange listings are hard, or that security improved elsewhere.
36:13 2024-03-13 The Insanity of Cults - A March 2024 video that opens by signing a message with a backdated fake Satoshi key to show how trivially the real Satoshi could prove himself, which Craig Wright never has despite years of lawsuits.
- Uses the book Cults to frame BSV and Craig Wright as a true cult, warning that every bull run brings out cult leaders like Do Kwon, BitConnect, and OneCoin who ensnare even smart people.
57:48 2024-03-11 Scale - A March 2024 deep dive on Cardano scalability, opening on full blocks during an NFT drop and explaining that Cardano is designed to run at redline without failing or losing security.
- Lays out three layers of scale: optimizing the base protocol via block size, block time, and efficient transactions with Aiken, then layer 2 and service partner chains like Hydra, Mithril, Ask Ben, and World Mobile, then global-scale Leios.
30:57 2024-03-04 9-0 and the Rule of Law - A March 2024 bookend on the Supreme Court's 9-0 Trump v. Anderson ruling, which he had predicted should be unanimous if the court were nonpartisan, on whether a state can bar a candidate.
- Walks the three standards for insurrection and the rule-of-law principle that laws must not be abusable to silence opponents, applying it to how a Cardano constitution must protect ADA holders with due process.
27:01 2024-02-24 Gemini and the Future - A February 2024 late-night video on the Google Gemini image controversy, where the model refused to render an accurate pope or George Washington, washing every prompt through a DEI lens.
- Argues that since LLMs just predict the next token, such outputs are a deliberate alignment choice, and warns a few companies are capturing how humanity discovers knowledge and educates children.
26:29 2024-02-20 Authenticating Charles Hoskinson - A February 2024 reference video on how to verify the real Charles Hoskinson, since scammers keep impersonating him: unless he has a specific reason, any cold contact claiming to be him is a scam.
- Walks through public-key cryptography and PGP, signing a message so anyone with his public key can verify it, and shows how the same test exposes Craig Wright, who never signs with Satoshi's key.
2:13:46 2024-02-19 Surprise AMA 02/19/2024 - A 133-minute President's Day 2024 grab-bag AMA opening on the cold plunge and clinic, then a roadmap tour: Ouroboros Peras and Leios, Hydra, Plutus V3, and Midnight's imminent open devnet.
- Long detours into Neuralink and concept transmission, the XRP community's ETHgate conspiracy, Ethereum Classic's failed treasury, and why Midnight's private smart contracts are the biggest evolution after governance.
35:33 2024-01-20 Growth, Strategy, and Electric Capital - A January 2024 video using the Electric Capital developer report to frame how Cardano's community should set priorities as the age of Voltaire begins.
- Walks the three Voltaire pillars, democratic consent, institutions, and constitutional representation, and how a budget quantifies what an ecosystem truly values.
30:45 2024-01-16 Qsig - A January 2024 preview of QSig, a workshop with the Ethereum Foundation and University of Edinburgh sprung from IOG's 2020 One-Shot Signatures paper on hybrid quantum and classical authenticity.
- Explains how quantum one-shot signatures that self-destruct after use could enable quantum money and blockchainless cryptocurrencies, situating it alongside zero-knowledge and trusted-hardware research.