10 Facts About Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is an American entrepreneur who is a co-founder of the blockchain engineering company Input Output Global, Inc, and the Cardano blockchain platform, and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform.

Charles Hoskinson attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and the University of Colorado Boulder "to study analytic number theory before moving into cryptography through industry exposure".

Charles Hoskinson has claimed that he had entered a PhD program but had dropped out.

Charles Hoskinson claimed repeatedly to have worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, though DARPA confirmed he had not.

In 2013, Charles Hoskinson quit a consulting job to begin a project called the Bitcoin Education Project.

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Charles Hoskinson joined the Ethereum team as one of five original founders with Vitalik Buterin in late 2013 and held the position of chief executive.

Charles Hoskinson did not pursue venture capital for Cardano, saying that it ran counter to the blockchain's principles.

Charles Hoskinson has said that venture capital involvement might lead to an outsized control of a project.

In 2020, Charles Hoskinson spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said that blockchain may eventually cause social change.

In September 2021, Charles Hoskinson donated $20 million to Carnegie Mellon University to build the Charles Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics.