Monty Munford

4 weeks 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.

1 month 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.

1 month ago | 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.

2 months ago | tech.eu | Monty Munford

For any startup that wants to set up in Europe, there is huge competition from other territories falling over themselves to offer an easy path to incorporation and markets. The US has always made it simple to do business, and business-friendly states like Delaware and Texas host numerous European companies that consider themselves European but have their headquarters thereIn recent years, there is now the UAE offering fat and tasty carrots for companies to set up there.

2 months ago | tech.eu | Monty Munford

Every now and again, something momentous happens that changes the world and it’s never the same again. As Lenin once said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. Last week was such a week. The huge flappings of the biggest black swan reverberated around the tech world when China’s DeepSeek released its R1 model. What was this madness?