Venture capitalist Bill Tai has joined blockchain-powered peer-to-peer renewable marketplace Power Ledger’s board of advisors equally an ambassador for the Australian company.
The Silicon Valley-based investor is good known amid the blockchain community together with is co-creator of the Blockchain Summit, which of late took house on Sir Richard Branson’s someone retreat, Necker Island.
Power Ledger co-founder together with chair Dr Jemma Green was at the Summit where she gave a presentation on what her companionship was doing to utilize the blockchain for the decentralization of issue energy systems. While at that topographic point she met amongst Tai where it was revealed he would conk an ambassador for Power Ledger.
Tai said:
Power Ledger is a standout amid the companies at our gathering, solving a existent work inwards an enormous market. Jemma together with her squad accept shown the basis how blockchain based technology scientific discipline tin hold upward applied to practice liquidity together with efficiency inwards the renewable issue energy markets amongst a solution that tin hold upward genuinely transformative.
Dr Jemma Green added that it was extremely exciting to accept Tai equally a fellow member of the team.
To accept someone of Bill’s calibre equally an ambassador inside the team, volition actually aid convey almost alter on a global scale. Having Bill on board is a big win for us together with we’re looking forrad to an exciting twelvemonth ahead.
Founded inwards 2016, Power Ledger was developed together with deployed inwards Western Commonwealth of Australia becoming the begin peer-to-peer platform to transact issue energy inwards the world. In the begin quarter of 2017, the issue energy companionship announced its token generation event with the aim of offering hereafter customers the chance to fund the platform together with to accelerate evolution through POWR tokens. Tai added:
The application of blockchain technology scientific discipline is making itself known inwards together with hence many dissimilar industries now. Power Ledger’s solution is inwards the end stages of commercial deployment, together with shows massive hope inwards the hereafter of renewable issue energy together with decentralizing the grid.
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