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Open Source Politics
...r than the things that divide us. That’s all I’ll say on this, and welcome to decentralization. It’s a fun thing. Thanks, everyone.
Congratulations Midnight
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny—sometimes Colorado. I was supposed to be in Abu Dhabi right now, but unfortunately, I am not. I was...
Hang in there
...best days are ahead of us, but we have to return to first principles. Return to decentralization. Return to self-custody. Return to decentralized identity. Return to the princi...
Code is Law
...rves what makes cryptocurrency special: the transparency, the immutability, the decentralization, the lack of middlemen inside the system, the censorship resistance. All of tha...
Leios
...here are so many transactions in it. Which is it, Justin? Our biggest need was decentralization and governance. We didn’t set LaaS aside. It was a lie to say that we just shut...
Some Thoughts
...million TPS is for L2 and not L1 because L1 should care more about security and decentralization and not sacrifice that for speed, and Cardano’s L2 can handle smart contracts t...
On Alternative Clients and Nodes
...t, and everyone knows it. It's not just a fancy feature; it's the foundation of decentralization. You can argue that it doesn't bring users, but there's a limit to what develop...
An Open Letter to Me
...ano and start from scratch with a whole new crypto with Bitcoin’s principles of decentralization intrinsically protected. Sincerely, a huge Cardano fanboy who has had enough." ...
True Grit
...tems have integrity and principles, and they never forget where they came from. Decentralization is the heart of who we are as an industry. We must always preserve and protect ...
Congratulations Cardano
... can also converge to a single common understanding. See, the dirty secret of decentralization is that the more decentralized you become, the more difficult it is to actually...
THE BREAK DOWN #451 - THE CRYPTO BULL RUN IS OVER. BIDEN STEPPING DOWN?
...t to keep two kids, and then you kill the third one. Crypto is so you like your decentralization, so you can keep it in this part of the system, but then this part of the syste...
Reading is Hard
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Today is May 11th, 2024, and I'm making a video talking about our favorite thing: politics. There is an article from our go...
SpacePlace #145 Forking in Public
...logic behind keeping the K parameter low at 500?” Okay, stop. The goal is not decentralization; the goal is censorship resistance. Decentralization is a tactic to achieve cen...
Welcome to the Plomin Era
..., and Chinese. That's pretty cool when you think about it. With the Edinburgh Decentralization Index, if we were to measure Cardano now, Cardano is, from the EDI, the most de...
On Governance and 2025
...ution, and person involved has different viewpoints and concepts regarding that decentralization. For my part, I believe the key is to build member-based institutions and on-c...
One small step for Cardano; One giant leap for the industry
...all U.S. customers and not participating with the United States as a whole. The decentralization of Cardano and the de-Americanization of Cardano, the growth of the D’s in the ...
The Insanity of Cults
...We’re all in the same club. We’re all trying to teach people about the value of decentralization. We’re all trying to teach people how to be their own bank, own their own ide...
Drama and Growing Up
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is March 8th, 2024. We’re already eight days into March, which is alread...
Legacy is Eating Crypto
Broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado—always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is February 12th, 2024. It's hard to believe that we're already a month down, halfway through the next ...
Growth, Strategy, and Electric Capital
...r metrics. Some of the things we’re developing at Intersect are things like the decentralization index as a metric of decentralization, which tends to be very under-emphasized ...
Happy Birthday Bitcoin (15 Years)
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Today is January 3rd, 2024. Can you believe it? Almost a quarter of a century has passed in the 21st century. It's been one h...
On Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano
...ty, and accountability. I ask people again and again, what is the definition of decentralization? It turns out it's a very complicated question. So we put our money where our m...
The End of an Era
...t merging the legacy world, which has these draconian regimes incompatible with decentralization, with what we’re trying to achieve in the decentralized world. We need to find ...
HoskSaid.com Questions
...se smart contracts that take that risk and get you there. How is the Edinburgh Decentralization Index going? Do you really think it can become the standard measure of decentra...
Basho, Input Endorsers, and the Future of Scalability
...ources from users and try to establish predictability, you usually look at your decentralization index. This is why we created the EDI and worked with the University of Edinbur...
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
Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is June 5th, 2023. Another day in paradise, huh? A lot of you watching are wonderi...
Cardano Update
...ayed around with. Now, in tandem, there’s a lot of progress with the Edinburgh Decentralization Index. A new paper is coming out, I think they call it centralization, looking ...
Political
...ntegrity and principles of the system. It is not optional. If your intention is decentralization and your intention is to be a free, open protocol for people, then to say that ...
MBO, Right Clicking, and Growth Hacking
...urces. The point of MBO 1694, the design of Cardano, the Treasury System, and decentralization is that those kinds of things can’t happen by design unless you choose them to,...
Surprise AMA 04/02/2023
...ou don’t engage with people like that; you just move on. As for the Edinburgh Decentralization Index update, there’s a lab at the University of Edinburgh with its own leaders...
Back in Colorado
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is February 19th. Where does the time go? My Lord, 2026 back in the offi...
Red Days
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from Tokyo. You know, I need to come up with a catchphrase for each of these places. I'm going to use AI to help invent it. It's always warm and sunny h...
Red Lines
...his community who wants to see it grow and thrive. I'm always going to push for decentralization and diversification. Just like if one node has a problem—maybe the Go node, the...
Remember Kids, X isn't reality
...r cryptocurrency in the entire space in the last three years to facilitate that decentralization. Everywhere you look, you have multiple flavors, not just vanilla. There is a...
Addiction to Bad Faith; the evil of algorithms
Hi everyone, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Today is December 10th, 10:48 p.m. Just about to go to bed, but I figured I’d make a quick video to talk about some ...
Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series)
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. This is the first in a new series of videos I'm going to make. I call it the P...
Update from Argentina
...be a burden to every wallet to every node builder made no sense for the sake of decentralization to preserve and protect a redemption mechanic. So a new redemption mechanic was...
See you on the other side
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny. Sometimes Colorado. Today is April 11th, 2025. I'm back home sitting in my office. You guys haven'...
Japan
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Today is March 5th, 2025, and there’s been a lot of speculation on many things. The crypto industry is special in that it tak...
Some Thoughts on Wallets (Part 1)
... everybody while preserving the same level of security. We also gain a lot more decentralization and resilience. My hope is that tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of f...
Live Reaction Video: Trump's Bitcoin Speech
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I wanted to try something a little new here. I'm live streaming a reaction video to Donald Trump's Bitcoin speech. We're a...
Node 9.0.0: Chang in a Box
...to be some deviation from what we think and what they think because that’s what decentralization is about, and it’s ultimately a good thing for us all. It’s going to make sure ...
RFLXT and Voyager
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is a double header; I'm making another video because an article just cam...
Metatransactions
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is March 13, 2024. Hard to believe it’s already three months into the ye...
State of Cardano Q4 2023
...on volume is there depth growth growth in tvl is there growth in governance and decentralization of the system are the institutions getting stronger is there future planning $8...
Markets and Contagion
...ty, transparency, and immutability are responsible? The people who advocate for decentralization and resilience by design, open-source community ownership instead of ownership ...
Staking and Regulation
Hi everyone, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Today is February 9th, 2023, and I want to make a quick video to talk about staking and regulation, as well as the h...
Surprise AMA 12/10/2022
... being thought about but you have to understand that there's trade-offs decentralization finality time uh throughput of the protocol and also the assumptions that go in...
What is RealFi?
hi this is Charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado always warm Always Sunny sometimes Colorado well wait a minute it's December gotta turn on the fireplace ah there we go ...