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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Challenge of Scalability in a Space of Cryptocurrency

Algrand is a company that has challenged the blockchain trilemma. It aims to achieve scalability, security and decentralization with its new system. Algrand says it can use tools invented 50 years ago - which in cryptographic time is prehistory. But there is really a fundamental problem which is almost a social, seems a political problem.

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