Overview
Charles Hoskinson Blog is a personal essay archive that lets readers follow how a crypto founder argued through the industry's early disputes in his own words. The essays are long, first-person, and unedited by any publication. It is an archive rather than an active blog: years pass between entries.
The author is Charles Hoskinson, who founded Input Output, the engineering company behind Cardano1, and who also co-founded Ethereum2. The blog runs on Blogger and carries no navigation, about page, or contact details, just the posts and the reader comment threads underneath them. Its own self-applied title is "Thoughts from Charles"3.
Key Features
- Primary-source founder writing. Nothing here is filtered through a press team, and the essays are first-person arguments that admit doubt and answer critics directly4.
- A record of crypto's formative arguments. Separate essays work through the Ethereum DAO collapse, the Tezos governance dispute, Ethereum Classic, IOTA, and Lisk, written while the outcomes were still unsettled5.
- Design reasoning you can check. The protocol-design essays link out to academic cryptography papers and public code repositories, so the arguments can be traced back to their sources rather than taken on trust4.
- One essay squarely on Cardano. "A Brief Update on Cardano" sets out how its author framed the project's direction and priorities for a general audience6.
- Original comment threads intact. Each post keeps the reader discussion it drew on publication, which shows the pushback the arguments attracted.
What to Expect
You land on a plain Blogger page with posts stacked newest first and almost no navigation. There is no about page, no search, no tag index, and no contact form. You either scroll, or use the year-by-year archive list in the sidebar to jump to a period.
Expect length. These are essays rather than updates, and most run past a thousand words4. The tone is direct and frequently combative, especially in the pieces answering critics or rival projects. Readers who prefer short summaries will find the format demanding.
The subject matter splits three ways. There is protocol and cryptography writing pitched at readers who already follow the technical debates. There is commentary on specific projects and incidents from crypto's early years. And there is personal writing, which includes an account of a silent meditation retreat and a piece of short fiction7. Anyone arriving expecting Cardano release notes or ecosystem announcements will not find them here.
For anything current, look elsewhere. The author's ongoing commentary runs on X and YouTube, and Cardano project announcements live on official channels and on the ecosystem's Cardano news sites. This blog is best treated as a primary source for how its author thought about the problems he was working on, rather than as a way to keep up with them.
