Alex Waters
| Alex Waters | |
|---|---|
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | CEO & co-founder, Coin Apex; co-founder, Coin Validation |
| Years active | 2010-present |
Alex Waters is an American technology entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Coin Apex, a New York City-based incubator that helps facilitate the creation and growth of technology startups. He has also been active in the creation of bitcoin-related companies Coin.co and Coin Validation.
Education
Waters studied software engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.[1]
Career
Waters co-founded Coin Apex, a bitcoin incubator and investment company, and serves as CEO.[2][3] Prior to Coin Apex, Waters was a computer programmer,[2] before working on bitcoin with the core development team,[4] and joining now-defunct bitcoin exchange site BitInstant as COO and CIO.[5][6] Along with Matthew Mellon and Yifu Guo, he then co-founded bitcoin due diligence service Coin Validation, which aims to help bitcoin users be compliant with U.S. regulators.[5] Waters is also a co-founder of Coin.co, a bitcoin payment processing facilitator.[7] In early 2015, Waters was a speaker on The Business Survival Guide to Bitcoin panel at the New York State Bar Association.[8]
Views
Waters has stated that he believes there is the potential for bitcoin technology to be used in other areas, such as a decentralized ledger system.[9] In an interview with Benzinga, Waters stated his view that the impact of bitcoin will rival that of the Internet.[10]
References
- ↑ "Advisory Board". Lifeboat Foundation. Retrieved August 22, 2014.
- 1 2 "The changing realm of Bitcoin". Fox Business. March 14, 2014.
- ↑ "Who Created Bitcoin… and Does It Matter?". Bloomberg TV. March 10, 2014.
- ↑ Taylor, Colleen (May 17, 2013). "With $1.5M Led By Winklevoss Capital, BitInstant Aims To Be The Go-To Site To Buy And Sell Bitcoins". TechCrunch.
- 1 2 Hill, Kashmir (November 13, 2013). "Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' Bitcoin Accounts". Forbes.
- ↑ Liu, Alec (April 10, 2013). "How To Really Get Rich From Bitcoins". Vice.
- ↑ "Is the Government Sanctioning Bitcoin With Auction?". Bloomberg TV. June 13, 2014.
- ↑ "Business Law Section & Corporate Counsel Section Annual Meeting". New York State Bar Association. January 28, 2015.
- ↑ Waters, Alex (March 7, 2014). "How Many Eyes Are on the Books?". The Hub.
- ↑ Bedigian, Louis (March 25, 2015). "Coin.co CEO: Bitcoin's Impact On Society Will Rival The Internet". Benzinga.