Austin Alexander is the Head of accounts at Kraken, one of the biggest digital asset exchanges in market volume worldwide. Austin first discovered Bitcoin in 2011 while working at the Mercatus Center, a free-market economic policy think tank.

Fascinated by the technology, Austin co-founded the Bitcoin Center NYC, after serving multiple years as a political consultant specializing in voter contact, working on the campaigns of numerous liberty candidates including Ron Paul.

At the Bitcoin Center NYC Austin lead daily educational courses on Bitcoin from the center’s location 100 feet from the New York Stock Exchange. He also consulted high net-worth investors seeking to enter the digital economy.