Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum, both of which are blockchain platforms.

Charles Hoskinson attended the Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Boulder where he studied analytic number theory.

In 2013, Hoskinson stepped down as a consultant to start a project called the Bitcoin Education Project. According to Hoskinson, “the limited supply makes Bitcoin look like digital gold.”

Ethereum

Hoskinson joined the Ethereum founding team (one of the eight original founders) with Vitalik Buterin in late 2013. Buterin removed Hoskinson from Ethereum in 2014 after a dispute over whether the project should be commercial (Hoskinson's point of view) or non-commercial (Buterin's point of view). After leaving Ethereum, he took a six-month sabbatical.

IOHK & Cardano

Former Ethereum colleague Jeremy Wood appr

oached Hoskinson with a request to form a new project called IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong), an engineering and research company that creates cryptocurrencies and blockchains[7]. IOHK's key project is Cardano, a public blockchain and smart contract platform that hosts the ADA cryptocurrency.

Participation in the life of universities

In 2017, Hoskinson and IOHK sponsored blockchain research labs at the University of Edinburgh and Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2020, Hoskinson opened a blockchain research project at the University of Wyoming. The collaboration included a $500,000 contribution to the University of Wyoming to support the development of blockchain technology through the establishment of the Advanced Blockchain Lab and the development of UWYO-IOHK. IOHK also has ties to the University of Edinburgh with its Chief Research Fellow, Aggelos Kiyayas.

Perspectives on bitcoin

According to Hoskinson, the rise in Bitcoin's energy consumption was inevitable, stating: "Bitcoin's energy consumption has more than quadrupled since the start of its last peak in 2017 and will get worse because energy inefficiency is built into Bitcoin's DNA."