MaiTai Global's Bill Tai On Why Blockchain Is The 6th Wave Of Technology

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, News, Business News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Bill Tai, a venture capitalist who got his start as a computer chip designer in the 1980s, places blockchain in the context of the broader technological revolution of the last three decades. He also reveals how Bitfury, a company in which he's an investor and board member, built a more efficient chip though the designers had never been formally trained; what blockchain advocacy group was founded in Sir Richard Branson's hot tub; and how he formed MaiTai Global, a series of kiteboarding-and-tech events in some of the most glamorous destinations around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.3	host Laura Shin a Forbes contributor covering blockchain digital currencies and FinTech
1:20.3	thanks for tuning in today I have a special guest Bill Ty one of the organized and capitalist and kipboarder who runs MyTai Global, a nonprofit that runs tech and
1:34.4	kipboarding events around the world. Bill's had a long career in tech and is the
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