Technology entrepreneur Charles Hoskinson joins the podcast to talk about early influences on his thinking, decentralised governance, trust, challenges in cryptocurrency, and the problem he'd most like to solve.

A fascinating conversation with a deeply thoughtful and insightful leader.

About Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado-based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder to study analytic number theory before movinginto cryptography through industry exposure.

His professional experience includes founding threecryptocurrency-related start-ups – Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK – and he has held a variety of posts in both the public and private sectors. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in 2013.

His current projects focus on educating people about cryptocurrency, being an evangelist for decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream.

This includes leading the research, design and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that launched in September 2017.

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Charles is active on social media. You can follow him on X.com (Twitter) ⁠here⁠.

And the YouTube video of Charles Argentinian talk that originally piqued Libby's interest can be found ⁠here⁠.

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