Alex Leishman: Earning Interest on Bitcoin Exchange River, Proof of Reserves and Bitcoin as Global Reserve Asset

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

In this episode with Alex Leishman, CEO and CTO of River, we discuss:

• - How Bitcoin exchanges work
• Why River is Bitcoin only and how crypto exchanges differ
• Proof of Reserves
• River's newly launched interest product on fiat balances
• Bitcoin as the future global reserve asset

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Bio: Alex Leishman is the CEO, CTO and co-founder of River, a financial services company specializing in Bitcoin. He was previously at Polychain Capital and a Security Software Engineer at Airbnb. Alex earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, and his Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. He also taught Stanford’s first Bitcoin class under Professor Dan Boneh.

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