Silvio Micali, Founder of Algorand: The History of Cryptography

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

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 works, and what's in store for Algorand moving forward. CRYPTO.COM-----Crypto.com is a pioneering payment and cryptocurrency platform that seeks to accelerate the world's transition to cryptocurrency. With the vision of "cryptocurrency in every wallet", the Crypto.com App offers a full range of financial products with competitive pricing, well designed UX and high security. It is the best place to buy, sell and pay with crypto. COINMINE-----The Coinmine One is like an Xbox that turns your electricity into Bitcoin. You just plug it in, connect to wifi, and tap on the crypto you want. It’s so easy anyone can do it. Everything is controlled from the Coinmine mobile app and the Coinmine keeps getting better with over the air updates that add new coins, features and services to your Coinmine. Visitcoinmine.com/pomp to get a Coinmine and earn crypto for powering a new world.

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Anthony Pompliano. Most of you know me as Pomp. You're listening
0:06.0	Off the Chain, simply the best podcast in crypto. Let's kick this thing off. Silvio McCauley is the founder
0:14.8	of Algarand and an Italian computer scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial
0:20.2	Intelligence Laboratory. In this conversation, we discussed the origins computer scientists at MIT's computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory.
0:22.0	In this conversation, we discussed the origins of cryptography, why a blockchain is so important,
0:28.8	what Silvio thinks about Bitcoin, why he created Algarand, how the system works, and what is
0:35.6	in store for Algarand moving forward. I really enjoyed this
0:39.0	conversation, and I hope you do as well. Skirt, skirt! Want to know who has the best URL? Crypto.com.
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0:53.4	That's why we're all here.
0:54.8	We're trying to get crypto in every wallet.
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1:02.3	Everything you could want at crypto.com.
1:04.9	Go help your boy out.
1:06.2	Tell them Pomp sent you.
1:07.5	Download the app or visit crypto.com.
1:10.4	Pomp's got you always.
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1:32.8	You plug it in, connect to your Wi-Fi, five minutes or less, you're mining Bitcoin.
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