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by avinassh 2803 days ago
> The elements of the protocol are all fairly easy to understand, but it's gorgeous to see how elegantly it solved a social problem rather than a computational problem.

One more protocol / paper which fits this description, imo, is Bitcoin paper [0]. It's easy and accessible to all and elegently explains how to solve a complex problem with existing tools. Not sure it can be called as an 'algorithm'

[0] - https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf