Michael J. Casey

Chief Content Officer

Michael J. Casey is Chairman of The Decentralized AI Society, former Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk and co-author of Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age. Previously, Casey was the CEO of Streambed Media, a company he cofounded to develop provenance data for digital content. He was also a senior advisor at MIT Media Labs's Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to joining MIT, Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where his last position was as a senior columnist covering global economic affairs.

Casey has authored five books, including "The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order" and "The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything," both co-authored with Paul Vigna.

Upon joining CoinDesk full time, Casey resigned from a variety of paid advisory positions. He maintains unpaid posts as an advisor to not-for-profit organizations, including MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and The Deep Trust Alliance. He is a shareholder and non-executive chairman of Streambed Media.

Casey owns bitcoin.

Latest from Michael J. Casey

Podcasts

The Solution to Climate Change Demands Web3 Technology

Sep 16, 2022

Money Reimagined Digital Money Stage at Consensus 2022

Finance

Ordered Chaos: Why the CoinDesk Market Index Matters for the New Economy

The CMI brings a clarity of vision that was previously lacking from the sprawling, opaque, poorly categorized crypto economy.

Sep 13, 2022

Opinion

A Currency Crisis Looms: We Need a New Model

Geopolitical issues and rising U.S. interest rates are boosting the dollar and threatening emerging-market currencies. It's time for change.

Sep 9, 2022

Videos

Think Tanks, the First Call for Policy Teams Looking for Crypto Data

Think tanks have recently been called upon to provide data points for crypto to support informed policy decision-making. On this episode of “Money Reimagined,” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren speak with Josh Lipsky, the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center, and John Soroushian, the senior associate director for technology at the Bipartisan Policy Center, to discuss the big focus areas for crypto research agendas over the next year and predictions for the upcoming congressional session.

Sep 9, 2022

Podcasts

Think Tanks; the First Call for Policy Teams Looking for Crypto Data

Sep 9, 2022

Opinion

TradFi Investors Will Love Ethereum’s Merge

The impact of the big shift to proof-of-stake are not priced into the market for ether, says CoinDesk's chief content officer.

Sep 2, 2022

Videos

Building a Blockchain Project in the Midst of This Crypto Winter

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has indicated hiking interest rates will continue for some time, making it clear that our present crypto winter is here to stay. “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren talk to NEAR Foundation CEO Marieke Flament about expanding its ecosystem of developers during the current climate and what it means for the future of regulation.

Sep 2, 2022

Podcasts

How Should a Blockchain Project Build in the Midst of This Crypto Winter?

Sep 2, 2022

Videos

The Regulatory Web of Crypto

The web of regulations that entangle the financial sector has been a guidepost for governors to apply to the crypto industry. But for many in the community, those same rules aren’t applicable to crypto and decentralized finance (DeFi) without considerable changes. “Money Reimagined” host Sheila Warren examines alternative frameworks for regulation and banking with Jai Massari, co-founder and chief legal officer of Lightspark, and Alexandra Steinberg Barrage, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine.

Aug 26, 2022

Opinion

In Defense of Crypto Speculation

Crypto needs speculation. The higher it is, the greater the potential for disruption.

Aug 26, 2022