Hello and welcome to The AwesomeAlgo podcast!

Today's guest is Stefano De Angelis. He is a Solution Architect and a PhD in Cybersecurity working at Algorand.

The episode is structured as follows:

1. Overview of Stefano's background and experience in the field of computer science, including their academic pursuits at the University of Sapienza and the University of Southampton and the topics of their theses. We will also delve into his first project in the blockchain space and how they discovered and became interested in Algorand.

2. In the second part of the episode, we will be taking a deep dive into the history of consensus mechanisms, starting with the earliest distributed systems in the second half of the 20th century and ending with modern protocols like Algorand's PPoS. We will discuss the state machine re ...