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Video: Silvio Micali Explains Algorand

Silvio Micali, MIT Professor of Engineering

MIT professor Silvio Micali delivered this exceptional keynote in Amsterdam on 4 July, 2018 for Bitcoin Wednesday’s 5-Year Anniversary.  His talk was about Algorand, a new blockchain he has developed and will be launching via a Testnet in the summer of 2018.

Professor Micali is one of the world’s authorities on cryptography, and is the recipient of the Turing Award in computer science, the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science, and the RSA prize in cryptography.  You can find a more detailled description of Algorand and professor Micali’s accomplishments here.