Jason Les
Chief Executive Officer at Riot Platforms, Inc.
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Les is a bitcoin-focused technology executive and entrepreneur with eight years of formal industry experience and a B.S. in Computer Science from UC Irvine. As CEO and longtime director at Riot Platforms, he leads large-scale bitcoin mining operations and strategy, translating low-level technical insight into operational scale. He co-founded Binary Digital SG and brings a founder’s mindset to building infrastructure and commercial partnerships in the crypto sector. Prior to full-time industry work he sharpened competitive decision-making as a professional poker player, an unusual background that informs risk management and strategic timing. Jason also maintains technical credibility as a bitcoin developer with an available PGP fingerprint, signaling hands-on involvement in cryptographic tooling and secure communications. Based in the United States, he blends entrepreneurial grit, technical depth, and operational leadership to advance institutional bitcoin adoption.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (3)
java5
python2
bitcoin2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Jason-Les/trezor-simple-sign
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 7 pushes, 2 issues in 6 days
Jason-Les/python-psbt
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
A python implementation of BIP 174 - Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction format
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 days
bitcoinpython
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