Silvio Micali: Podcast Interviews

Silvio Micali, PhD

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Computer scientist, Business executive

3 Interviews

Silvio Micali's Interviews

Lex Fridman & Silvio Micali • 15 Mar 2021 • EN

#168 – Silvio Micali: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin, and Ethereum

Silvio Micali is a computer scientist at MIT, Turing award winner, and founder of Algorand. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex and use code LEX to get 1 month of fish oil - The Information: https://theinformation.com/lex to get 75% off first month

Anthony Pompliano & Silvio Micali • 12 Aug 2019 • EN

Silvio Micali, Founder of Algorand: The History of Cryptography

Silvio Micali is the founder of Algorand, and an Italian computer scientist at MIT's computer science and AI laboratory. In this conversation, Silvio and Anthony Pompliano discuss the origins of cryptography, why a blockchain is so important, what Silvio thinks about Bitcoin, why he created Algorand, how the system wor

Sebastien Couture + Meher Roy & Silvio Micali • 08 Feb 2017 • EN

Silvio Micali: Algorand – A New Scalable and Secure Approach to Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus

There is no doubt that proof of work, introduced in the Bitcoin white paper, has stood the test of time as a robust and resilient Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism. However, many issues may prevent Nakamoto Consensus from securely scaling over the long term. The risk of validator centralization, network fork