Algorand (ALGOUSD)

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Algorand Rises 30% As Founder Sneaks Into List Of Personalities To Watch In 2023
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/algorand-rises-30-as-founder-sneaks-into-list-of-personalities-to-watch-in-2023/

Politico: 2023's crypto characters to watch
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2023/01/30/2023-crypto-characters-to-watch-00080232

— "Algorand founder Silvio Micali: The Italian computer scientist is lesser known than many other crypto founders, though his theoretical bona fides are among the strongest.

In the ’80s, Micali was among the inventors of zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic technique that is now being widely deployed to bake even more secrecy into next-generation blockchain systems.

While Micali is just one of many crypto founders who tout their systems — in this case, Algorand — as technically superior to the most popular blockchains, he is the only one who has won both a Turing Award (often called the “Nobel Prize of computing”) and the inaugural Gödel Prize, a computer science honor inspired by Austrian logician Kurt Gödel’s correspondence with mathematician John Von Neumann.

At the dawn of the digital age, thinkers like Alan Turing and Von Neumann ventured from the realm of theory into applications to create the earliest computers — with consequences for the functioning of society and the global balance of power that are still unfolding in unpredictable ways today.

Crypto hasn’t proven its significance on any scale that is remotely comparable to computing itself.

But the technology’s proponents have ambitions that are just as sweeping and potentially unpredictable. If it fulfills them, it will likely be on account of the efforts of figures who are less like the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs so familiar to us today, and more like an earlier generation of tech pioneers who set out from the world of theory into the world of application."