Residence New York City Nationality American | Years active 2010-present Name Alex Waters | |
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Occupation CEO & co-founder, Coin Apex; co-founder, Coin Validation Alma mater Rochester Institute of Technology | ||
A Bitcoin Bug? The Latest Hiccup for the Currency
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.
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Education
Waters studied software engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Career
Waters co-founded Coin Apex, a bitcoin incubator and investment company, and serves as CEO. Prior to Coin Apex, Waters was a computer programmer, before working on bitcoin with the core development team, and joining now-defunct bitcoin exchange site BitInstant as COO and CIO. 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. Waters is also a co-founder of Coin.co, a bitcoin payment processing facilitator. In early 2015, Waters was a speaker on The Business Survival Guide to Bitcoin panel at the New York State Bar Association.
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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. In an interview with Benzinga, Waters stated his view that the impact of bitcoin will rival that of the Internet.