Monty Munford

2 weeks ago | tech.eu | Monty Munford

It’s an early spring afternoon and I’m in Sweden driving a ‘snow’ 2025 Polestar 2 with a so-called performance package. It’s the first time I’ve driven an electric car and very different from the 20-year-old petrol VW Golf that I’ve driven for the past five years. Unfortunately, I realise I’m in Gothenburg, not at home in the UK, and I’m on the wrong side of the road. My passengers point this out with increasing alarm, but I use the impressive electric acceleration, and the crisis is averted.

3 weeks ago | cointelegraph.com | Monty Munford

As Bitcoin’s price surges back into headlines, fueled by TradFi institutions and corporations gobbling up all the supply, so too have fears increased among decentralization purists. Is this validation of Bitcoin’s long-term value or the beginning of its co-option by the very forces it was created to resist? It’s an important distinction.

2 months ago | cointelegraph.com | Monty Munford

Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder’s crypto origin story is classic geek gold. As a student at Princeton, he first heard about Bitcoin in 2013 during a visit day at Princeton. Professor Ed Felten — the future inventor of rollups on Ethereum, co-founder of Arbitrum and a White House science advisor — gave a five-minute lightning talk about the cost of a government destroying Bitcoin.

2 months ago | tech.eu | Monty Munford

Across Ireland there are more than 3,000 so-called holy wells sites aligned with pagan and early Christian beliefs that these sites were thought to miraculous powers. While the spread of alternative tech clusters around Europe may not be blessed with the same divination and quantity, there is certainly something prodigious happening in many European towns and cities away from capital cities usually associated with technology.

Feb 24, 2025 | tech.eu | Monty Munford

Some years ago, in fact 14 years ago in May, I wrote a piece for another tech publication - Which startup is cleared for launch as Europe’s next €100+ million exit? At that time I picked five companies and they all did rather well. One sold for $550 million, another for $200 million, two of them were SoundCloud and Spotify and another ‘washed its face’. That was in the days when €100 million was a lot of money and now seems almost quaint as a number when it comes to a startup’s value.