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Most people building in blockchain are standing on the shoulders of Silvio Micali's work, whether they know it or not. A Turing Award winner, MIT professor, and one of the foundational figures of modern cryptography, Micali has spent decades thinking about consensus, trust, and the mathematical foundations of secure systems. When he speaks about where public blockchains need to go next, it's worth listening carefully. "Rethinking Public Blockchains: Crypto-less Consensus and Pure-Ecosystem Tokens" 📅 Wednesday, April 15 · 4:40 PM – 5:00 PM 🎤 Master Stage powered by @BybitEU Silvio Micali, Blockchain Founder & Turing Award Winner In conversation with @JohnAlanWoods, CEO of @nillion

🧵 Alex Holmes becoming CEO and Chairman of Bitcoin Depot is interesting for a reason that goes beyond a simple executive appointment. When the @AlgoFoundation introduced its new board, it described @walexholmes as a leader with deep experience across payments, digital assets, banking, and compliance. Now that same operator is stepping in to lead @Bitcoin_Depot That matters. Not because this is just another résumé update, but because it connects several important lanes at once: payments, regulated finance, digital assets, and crypto access infrastructure. And Bitcoin Depot is not just another crypto brand. It sits much closer to real retail access than many online-only crypto businesses. It is part of the physical infrastructure through which everyday users gain exposure to Bitcoin. That is what makes this move worth watching. The more these worlds overlap through the people leading them, the more strategically interesting those overlaps become. Because people matter. Operator networks matter. And strategic positioning matters too. Algorand itself framed the moment with: $ALGO 🤝 $BTC That alone makes the move worth paying attention to. It suggests the Foundation sees strategic relevance in the overlap between Algorand, Bitcoin access, payments, and broader digital asset rails. To me, that is the bigger point. Not the lazy headline. Not forced speculation. But the fact that someone with serious payments and compliance credentials, who also sits on Algorand’s board, is now leading one of the most visible Bitcoin access platforms in the market. Sometimes the signal is not just in the company. Sometimes the signal is in the operator. And sometimes it is in the way a move is framed before the market fully understands why.

@iGetAlgo Well it's not a pipe dream anymore. Just bought my first, whole, $IGA