5 Highlights From ‘Stablecoins Are Killing It’ #23 — Featuring Algorand

We had a great show featuring David Markley, Director of Business Solutions at Algorand. You can watch the show in it’s entirety below:

Or you can read our five highlights :

1. Algorand Set Out To Solve The Blockchain Trilemma

Silvio Micalia is an MIT professor best known as a co-inventor of Zero-Knowledge Proofs, for which he won the 2012 Turing Award (aka the “Nobel Prize in Computing”).

In 2017, Silvio set about ​​creating a new consensus algorithm that would solve the “blockchain trilemma”, which Vitalik coined to refer to the need to make tradeoffs between scalability, security and decentralization:

Two years later, on June 11, 2019, the first block on the Algorand blockchain was mined.