Charles Hoskinson
Charles Hoskinson is an American entrepreneur who is a founder of the Cardano blockchain platform and was a co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain platform. Early life and education. 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". Hoskinson has claimed that he had entered a PhD program but had dropped out. However, Denver did not have a graduate program in mathematics. Colorado Boulder verified that he had attended as a half-time undergraduate math major, but did not earn a degree . Career. In 2013, Hoskinson quit a consulting job to begin a project called the Bitcoin Education Project. According to Hoskinson, the limited supply makes Bitcoin like a digital form of gold. He joined the Ethereum founding team as one of five original founders with Vitalik Buterin in late 2013. For a brief time Hoskinson held the position of chief executive at Ethereum. Buterin removed Hoskinson from Ethereum in 2014 after a dispute over whether the project should be commercial (Hoskinson's view) or a nonprofit (Buterin's view). In late 2014, Hoskinson and former Ethereum colleague Jeremy Wood formed IOHK  (Input Output Hong Kong), an engineering and research company that builds cryptocurrencies and blockchains. IOHK's key project is Cardano, a public blockchain and smart contract platform that hosts the ADA cryptocurrency. Hoskinson did not pursue venture capital for Cardano, saying that it ran counter to the blockchain's principles. Hoskinson has also said that venture capital involvement might lead to an outsized control of a project. Forbes has estimated Hoskinson's wealth as $500m-$600m. In 2020, Hoskinson spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said that blockchain may eventually cause social change. Charles Hoskinson