On Monday 22nd March, we were delighted to host the second event in our Algorand Educate series. A huge thank you to Haichao from the Algorand Foundation for his great presentation during this session!
To learn more about Algorand Educate and the upcoming events, please visit our website: http://www.encode.club/algorand-club
You can find the slides used during the event in the following article: https://medium.com/encode-club/algorand-educate-algorand-consensus-algorithm-video-slides-4757b5da84a5
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We are delighted to be working again with the Algorand Foundation and helping to champion the adoption of the Algorand blockchain. Their technology, the brainchild of Turing-Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, stands out at the forefront of the blockchain space, particularly their pure-proof-of stake protocol. We also know first hand that their developer relations and support are second to none. For more information, visit https://www.algorand.com/ or https://algorand.foundation/
00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:04 Algorand Intro
00:04:15 Introduction to Consensus Algorithms
00:15:38 FLP Impossibility
00:18:00 Network Model Assumption
00:20:50 Paxos Consensus Algorithm
00:22:13 Byzantine Fault Tolerance
00:33:35 Summary of Previous Solutions
00:39:05 Algorand Consensus Algorithm
00:48:11 Algorand Presentation Conclusion
00:51:13 Audience Questions
01:13:00 Conclusion
very informative, thank you very much