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Some End of Year Thoughts
...his? First off, institutional money did come in, but they got locked into the Bitcoin layer. Because of the structure, they can't sell the Bitcoin and buy altcoins. ...
Thanksgiving for Unity
...s like Midnight leading the tip of the spear for commercialization. And we have Bitcoin DeFi to open up completely new markets. If we work together in unity as one voi...
Surprise AMA 06/15/2025
...e is required for number two. That’s our problem. So we have things coming like Bitcoin DeFi, and that’s going to add a lot of assets into Cardano land, bringing in a ...
Cardano Decentralized Sovereign Wealth Fund
... as ADA-backed stable synthetics like IUSD. We could also convert some of it to Bitcoin to prime the Bitcoin DeFi. It’s complicated because you have to also look at th...
Surprise AMA 06/08/2025
...ligently on Ouroboros and upgrades to Plutus. We've been working on Babel fees, Bitcoin DeFi, things like Ouroboros Paris, Midnight, and Lace. All things considered, a...
True Grit
...st solution. But the reality is there are plenty of fine people in Solana, XRP, Bitcoin, and Ethereum spaces. The world is a very big place, and it’s entirely possible...
Congratulations Fluid Token
...s that are on offer. So, when I say that you can pay DeFi fees in Cardano using Bitcoin, Bitcoin can be offered, and somebody can cover the ADA cost and get transactio...
Live Reaction Video: Trump's Bitcoin Speech
...ething a little new here. I'm live streaming a reaction video to Donald Trump's Bitcoin speech. We're all waiting for Bitcoin 2 Trump. I'm going to go ahead and mute t...
Congratulations J.D.
...unning as VP on a major party ticket, Democrat or Republican, to have ever held Bitcoin. I believe he has over six Bitcoin in personal holdings, as noted in his financ...
Wyoming
...Governor Gordon. From New York, billionaire Charles Hoskinson has set up a huge Bitcoin computing center south of Gillette, and there's another one in Buckskin Coal Mi...
To Mike
This one's for Michael Saylor. Michael, if your only argument for Bitcoin is that governments like it and are embracing it, and that all the altcoins are...
Roger Ver
...just got arrested. I figure I'd make this video because I like Roger. An early Bitcoin investor, he has been charged with tax fraud. The man known as "Bitcoin Jesus" ...
Welcome to the Plomin Era
..., the most decentralized cryptocurrency project in the world, even more so than Bitcoin. We're there. It's pretty remarkable when you think about it. It blows me away....
On Bitcoin
...ve been involved in for a very long time. As many of you know, I started in the Bitcoin space, and I loved Bitcoin. It has been a big part of my life, and the only rea...
XRP and Wyoming
... I would also like to point out that because of Cardano’s partnership with Boss Bitcoin OS, Cardano creates an opportunity for Bitcoin to have its first stable coin. H...
Free Roger
... our industry and a good friend of mine. As many of you know, I've been in the Bitcoin space for a very long time. I was part of that Slashdot Revolution that brought...
Surprise AMA 11/17/2024
... a dedicated person to focus solely on making Cardano the dominant platform for Bitcoin DeFi. We have a bit of competition there, but I believe we're best in class. I ...
I'm Back
...ity and myself in particular. First, I want to explain the relationship between Bitcoin maximalists, Cardano, and Bitcoin itself. I’ve been in the Bitcoin space longer...
Surprise AMA 11/02/2024
...ery ready for it, sir. Cardano doesn’t scale, but why? I’ll give you one shot, Bitcoin curious. Tell me the technical reason why Cardano cannot scale. Go ahead and te...
The Insanity of Cults
...gn. In fact, I just double-signed. What’s so hard about that? Everything in the Bitcoin blockchain—every single thing that’s done, every transaction, every block gener...
Happy Birthday Bitcoin (15 Years)
...er place and are trying to find a way to make it happen. On January 3rd, 2009, Bitcoin turned on. It's an amazing thing. The very first block of the network started, ...
On Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano
...nd maximalism is at an all-time high. When I entered the space a long time ago, Bitcoin was very small, and there was really no substantive altcoin market. Everyone wa...
PFP, Art, and Sharing
...m warm, sunny Colorado. Today is January 3rd, 2023, a special day because it is Bitcoin's birthday. Happy birthday, Bitcoin! Fourteen years old and always finds a way ...
BIP 361: Welcome to ShitcoinLand, Bitcoin
...live from warm, sunny Colorado. There are days that I just love. I'm one of the Bitcoin OGs, and as much criticism as I have received, I’m still here. I'm one of the v...
Finding Satoshi
...n-technical reasons include the right age and education. Satoshi was working on Bitcoin probably around 2007 to 2008 and launched it on January 3rd, 2009. To have work...
Pentad Integration Update: Pyth
...d a lot of MAUs and transactions. We now have many competitive differentiators. Bitcoin DeFi gives us access to new markets that others don’t have, and Midnight provid...
Addiction to Bad Faith; the evil of algorithms
...est problems that I thought the cryptocurrency space had. There was a thread on Bitcoin Talk that I created back in 2013 called Project Invictus. My thought process wa...
Midnight Launch AAR
... return to first principles for us as an industry. This is the first time since Bitcoin that a launch has been done the way Midnight did it. It was complete retail, co...
Congratulations Midnight
...to Solana users, Avalanche users, Ethereum users, Binance users, Cardano users, Bitcoin users, and everyone else in between. People will come to realize that the launc...
Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series)
...y good strategy will include an aggregator strategy, which is where things like Bitcoin DeFi fit in, as it opens up channels for capital and people. The same goes for ...
Genesis Ada
...wdsale in Japan, raising about $72 million. That $72 million was converted into Bitcoin, and there was a tripartite structure that was set up. The tripartite structure...
PGP and Me
...a private key, which only the person associated with it knows. When you spend Bitcoin or ADA or whatever, you are actually signing a transaction with this private ke...
Resilience and the Other Side
... 10 years. He's got created Rootstock and he's the guy who figured out how much Bitcoin Satoshi has. He's been around for a long time. He's the OG of OGs, talking abou...
Update from Argentina
...e first to bring that to market. It was exciting to see other people working on Bitcoin bridges like Sundial for example and being part of the Bitcoin D5 revolution. N...
See you on the other side
... into the Cardano ecosystem. The concept of hybrid applications—whether they be Bitcoin to Midnight, Ethereum to Midnight, Solana to Midnight, or Cardano to Midnight—i...
Japan
...e than 50% of the token. It’s hard to say: is it an American crypto? What about Bitcoin? Is Bitcoin an American crypto? We don’t know who the founder is; the majority ...
Congratulations Cardano
...e fully decentralized; there’s no centralized point of failure in Cardano. Like Bitcoin, the only other one that’s truly like this, Cardano is fully decentralized. Now...
Open Source Politics
... Some people really believe in one thing. In fact, when I was growing up in the Bitcoin days, there was a guy named Luke Dash Jr. who made Bitcoin blocks and created a...
Some Thoughts on Wallets (Part 1)
...ove usability. The final component, the DApp store component, is pivotal to the Bitcoin DeFi experience and will be a massive competitive differentiator. So, I've bee...
The Profane Unaccountability of Social Media
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is Halloween, October 31st, 2024. I'm making a quick video before I go h...
Node 9.0.0: Chang in a Box
...e of all of you, and you have a say. That’s the big differentiator. If you hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana, you don’t have a say. With Cardano, you do, and that fore...
Biden and Crypto
...ng statement from this administration. Let me share it with you, as reported by Bitcoin Magazine. The U.S. President Joe Biden's administration says Biden would veto l...
Metatransactions
... a pattern of transactions. For example, Bob sends some value, an asset—say one Bitcoin, which used to be not that much money back in the day—to Alice. Typically spe...
The End of an Era
...uld go to Mt. Gox and transfer money using PayPal or other services just to buy Bitcoin. There was LocalBitcoins, where you’d find people, give them cash, and they’d s...
Intersect, Repos, and Cardano Product Backlog
Hi everyone, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. As promised, this is the chosen video to talk a little bit about Intersect and how things are going to start transit...
Why we fight
...ays by the same rules. That’s what makes Cardano special, and that’s what makes Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other great protocols special. This idea that everybody has to p...
Cardano Update
... the lab measure Cardano and see where our decentralization sits in relation to Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies like Ethereum. My belief is that we’ll actuall...
Staking and Regulation
...tation of a return. This is where the rub comes in when you compare that with a Bitcoin model of mining pools or a Cardano model of stake pools. In the case of Bitco...
Surprise AMA 12/10/2022
...got Litecoin nothing against Litecoin but it's just basically a fork of Bitcoin with a slightly different monetary policy and a slightly different proof of wor...
What is RealFi?
...e put in where you don't have to change the underlying protocols I mean Bitcoin doesn't have to change itself ethereum doesn't have to change i...