Steve Waterhouse is a partner at Pantera Capital, focused on Blockchain and Bitcoin investments. Steve was a cofounder and CTO of RPX (Nasdaq: RPXC) and previously Director and founder of the Honeycomb product group at Sun Microsystems. He has been an advisor to many successful startups and serves on the boards of Bitsamp, ChangeTip and Speak-with-me. He holds a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge with a focus in speech recognition and machine learning. Steve is an avid waterman and loves the kelp filled cold waters of the Pacific west coast.