citiesabc interview: Monty Munford Tech Journalist - Blockchain and Crypto in Times of COVID-19

Monty Munford, tech journalist, blockchain expert and Co-Founder at BlockSpeak podcast series, is the new guest in this interview series for citiesabc. As it is usual in the series, host Dinis Guarda and Monty Munford discuss 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.

INTERVIEW STRUCTURE

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. How to 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.

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/
MONTY MUNFORD TWITTER: https://twitter.com/montymunford
WIKIPEDIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_M...

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