Latest interesting by Dinis Guarda with one of our own favourites, Monty Munford. Who is tech journalist, blockchain expert and Co-Founder at BlockSpeak podcast series, in this interview series for citiesabc.
Host Dinis Guarda and Monty Munford discuss the major challenges nations, cities and people are facing today. Covid-19 and its impact on the economy and the crypto space and how it is a wake-up call for all of us to do it better in the future. In that regard, blockchain and cryptocurrencies might find in the post-Covid-19 world their best opportunity to stand up and become the drivers of change.
The interview takes the following path:
1. Profile and professional background.
2. Work on media
3. The COVID-19 pandemic. The great challenge of our time
4. COVID-19 and its impact on blockchain and crypto industry
5. Post coronavirus world. A look into the future of blockchain and crypto
6. BlockSpeak podcast.
Monty explains how he become an eminence in the blockchain space.
Monty Munford is a well known tech-journalist and blockchain enthusiast who started his career working for several years as a motorbike dispatch-rider in London, before retraining as a journalist at the London College of Printing in 1998.
From 2015-2019 Munford was a tech columnist for Forbes in New York and The Telegraph in London. He has also contributed to TechCrunch, Mashable, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Wired. MIT Technology Review, The Independent, The Inquirer, The Guardian, The Observer, Financial Times, and The Times of India.
He has a Google News-verified tech blog, Mob76 Outlook. He has interviewed Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, John McAfee, and Roger Ver. In August 2019, Munford reported that he had been defrauded of £25,000 in cryptocurrency, mainly Bitcoin and Ethereum, when his private keys were stolen from his Gmail account.
Munford has also written and self-published The Dust Bowls of Maturity. In 2005 Munford joined mobile media games publisher and distributor Player X having previously worked for mobile game testing house Babel Media. Munford left Player X to devote his time to connecting UK and Indian mobile content providers working with Paramount and FC Liverpool, as well as to pursue acting in Bollywood.
In 2011, he returned to the UK and set up his own consultancy Mob76. Mob76 works with companies to help them raise money, raise their profile, connect with the right network and eventually exit via acquisition.
Munford has acted in two Bollywood films: as a 1930s British officer for the Ashutosh Gowariker film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, and as a Russian gangster in the Rohan Sippy film Dum Maro Dum. He recently started his podcast BlockSpeak where he carries out Weekly interviews with influential people in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Space. BlockSpeak podcast: https://blockspeak.io/
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