Second installment of the Advisory AMA series is now open. This time we have Bill Tai in the house, with his bio below:

Bill Tai is a venture capitalist and a leading figure in the Blockchain segment. He holds the unusual title of "YODA" for [AirSwap](airswap.io), and is a Board Director of BitFury, where he Chairs the Strategy Committee of the Board, and Board Chairman of Hut8. He created the annual Blockchain Summit on Necker Island in 2014, and is a lead Board Advisor to P2P Energy Company Power Ledger, the first ever Australian company to hold an ICO. His interest in crypto currency predates Bitcoin as a contributor to the creation of the currency in SecondLife as "Alan Greenspan Golum" in 2001 and accelerated shortly after Bitcoin's launch.

His opinions on Blockchain as a TCP/IP for Assets, ICOs as value exchanges, Crypto vs Petrodollar, and Electricity in Mining may be of interest.

Originally trained as a chip designer, he joined LSI Logic, a seminal Silicon Valley startup formed by the CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor after earning a BSEE with Honors from University of Illinois. He was issued an early badge at TSMC where he helped create a spreadsheet model of what would become the company's first manufacturing facility. As a semiconductor analyst at Alex. Brown and Sons he positioned IPOs for chip companies Adaptec, Atmel, Cirrus Logic, Dallas Semiconductor, Exar, and Zilog.

He has been a venture capitalist since 1991 and today is co-founder Chairman of Treasure Data; Board Member of BitFury, Hut8, and Voxer and a lead seed investor in Canva, Color Genomics, Tweetdeck/Twitter, Wish.com and Zoom Video. He was Founding Chairman & CEO of iAsiaWorks (IPO via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley) and Founding Chairman of IPinfusion (Tokyo:4813). He has served as Board Director of 8 publicly listed companies (Hut8, AWRD EGHT IAWK NPIX TMTA TUNE and IMGO) that grew from startups he funded at their formative stages. He serves on the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Committee and is an Adjunct Professor of Innovation at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

Bill Tai in action:

• Bill Tai on AirSwap

• MENA Summit

• Polycon 2018

UPDATE: AirSwap YODA will be answering questions under the username of BillTai!

UPDATE #2: Bill has kindly agreed to extend this AMA to March 23th. So feel free to come back for more questions!