Adopting Bitcoin 2022

Alex Leishman

Alex Leishman is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at River Financial. Based in San Francisco, River Financial is a client-first financial institution dedicated to providing financial products and services that enable their clients to harness the transformative possibilities of Bitcoin. Prior to co-founding River Financial, Alexander most recently served on the investment and engineering teams at Polychain Capital and Polychain Labs focusing on Bitcoin-related venture investments. Mr. Leishman has previously served as an engineer at Airbnb's security team, a management consultant for Deloitte, and first got deeply involved in the Bitcoin industry as an early engineer at Maicoin, Taiwan's largest digital asset exchange. Mr. Leishman holds a degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Master's in Computer Science from Stanford University where he helped teach the first Bitcoin class under Professor Dan Boneh.


Sessions

11-16
09:50
20min
Recap: Year 1 Chivo Wallet
Tristan Thoma, Alex Leishman, Ken Kruger

A deep dive into the launch of the Chivo wallet, the major updates brought to it over the year, and how they are currently managing to bring users back on board after a difficult start.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
11-16
12:20
40min
Fractional Reserve with Bitcoin
Daniel Wingen, Eric Yakes, Sam Abbassi, Alex Leishman

How to avoid the same mistakes of legacy financial institutions?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage