Hi! My name is Alex Waters. I write code and I'm passionate about the internet & learning.
I Tweet, Medium, and have worked at several great organizations on some fun projects:
Bitcoin Core Development, Bitinstant, Coin Apex, Paxos, GetKelvin, a consultancy, Eco, PAI, and a Trust Institution
| Press, Media & Selected Content |
2019
September | Cheddar.com | Global Anti Money-laundering Watchdog Remains Cautious About Libra
February | The Power of Thought Podcast | Bitcoin & A.I. Murderbots
2018
September | Elm.nyc | Blocking and Tackling: Why the Blockchain Matters for National Security
August | Medium.com | Protocols
June | Medium.com | Reputation As a Metric
May | Github.com | PAI Data Storage and Sharing
2017
October | ProjectPAI.com | PAI Blockchain Protocol: A Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Network
September 24th | CoinDesk | Vivid History: 'How Money Got Free' Is the Untold Story of Bitcoin
September 20th | American Banker | Could Chinese Regulators Put an End to Blockchain Assets?
September 6th | American Banker | What Banks Can Learn from a Cryptocurrency's Bug Bounty Program
June 26th | Fortune | Can Bitcoin’s First Felon Help Make Cryptocurrency a Trillion-Dollar Market?
June 9th | Business Insider | How a New York Startup Disregarded the Law to Help Get Bitcoin Off the Ground
May 9th | Wired | How One Scrappy Startup Survived The Early Bitcoin Wars
May 9th | Brian Eha | How Money Got Free
April 6th | CoinDesk | Here Comes the Pickaxe Race: Bitcoin Mining Jumps to GPU
2016
July 17th | BBC | Bitcoin: Still The Future of Money?
June 29th-30th | W3C | Blockchains and the Web
May 4th | OCC | Bitcoin: Past, Present, and Future
April 22nd| MX | Why Banks Are Investing in Bitcoin [Interview]
April 6th | Eric Geissinger | Virtual Billions
March 23rd | FIRMA annual conference | Bitcoin - Current Movement in Blockchain Technology
2015
December 9th | Bloomberg Technology | Bitcoin's Creator Reportedly Living Suburban Life in Australia
August 10th | Documentary | The Evolution and Revolution of a Commodity
July 28th | American Banker | Digital Currencies + The Blockchain
June 29th | Hoegner, Straus, Brito, Friedman, Rae, Osborne | The Law of Bitcoin
May 22nd | Great Wall of Numbers | Book Review: Digital Gold
May 19th | Nathaniel Popper | Digital Gold
May 15th | NYSBA @ NY Federal Reserve | Hot Topics in Virtual Currencies
April 29th | Hedge Co | Fashion and Bitcoins
April 28th | The King's College | Benefiting Across Borders
April 27th | Trusted Insight | So What's Next in Financial Tech?
April 27th | NetFinance 2015 Miami | Bitcoin Round Table Chair
March 31st | | Christian Science Monitor | Silk Road Investigators Charged
March 25th | Forex Minute | Compares Bitcoin with Internet
March 25th | Benzinga | Bitcoin's Impact On Society Will Rival The Internet
March 25th | Yahoo! Finance | Bitcoin's Impact On Society Will Rival The Internet
March 23rd | Money Summit | Why Banks Are Investing in Bitcoin
February 6th | Lighthouse / Vinumeris / CoinApex | Testing for Bitcoin Core
January 28th | NY Bar Association | Digital Currencies in Practice
January 28th | NY Bar Association Annual Meeting | Bitcoin Panel
2014
December 20th | Andreas Antonopoulos | Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies
November 21st | The Clearing House Annual Conference | Emerging Payments Panel
November 19th | The King's College | Digital Currency Roundtable
November 19th | Bitcoinist.net | Coinapex, an Incubator aiming to support Cryptocurrency Projects
November 16th | NYU | Bitcoin Hackathon Speaker & Mentor
October 24th | CCN | Mine Bitcoin Save Money Heating
July 13th | Bloomberg | Alex and Matt Miller on the FBI auction
June 30th | New York Times | After Bitcoin Auction, Winning Bidders Remain Elusive
June 7th | Coin.co | Bitcoin is just the beginning
May 23rd | Vice: Motherboard | Bitcoin is boring
May 20th | Internet Week Panelist | Off the Blockchain
May 20th | Internet Week NYC | The future of cryptocurrency
April 28th | Columbia University Speaker | Mobile Payments & Virtual Currencies
April 23rd | The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin | Documentary
April 8th | Money & Tech | Interview with Jered Kenna
April 7th | NYU Law School | Digital currency panel
April 3rd | Council on Foreign Relations Panelist | Google Ideas
March 14th | Fox | Alex and Liz Claman talk Bitcoin on Fox
March 10th | Bloomberg | Discussing Satoshi Nakamoto with Matt Miller
March 7th | PlayerAuctions | Alex writes about the future of Bitcoin
February 12th | Bloomberg | with Sallie Krawcheck, Matt Miller, and Stephanie Ruhle
2013
December 18th | WNYC | This Mom Love Bitcoins
November 13th | Forbes | Forbes on CoinValidation with Yifu Guo and Matthew Mellon
May 28th | General Assembly | What are Bitcoins? with Charlie Shrem
May 17th | TechCrunch | Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss put $1.5mm into Bitinstant
May 7th | Vice: Motherboard | Who's Building Bitcoin? An Inside Look
April 30th | Observer | "Its all about the bitcoin, baby"
April 10th | Vice: Motherboard | How to get really rich from bitcoins