Michael J. Casey

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.

Michael J. Casey

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Money Reimagined: Price Swings Versus the Long Term

The popping of bubbles does not indicate the failure of crypto technology itself, which continues to see massive long-term venture interest.

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Fighting the Trillion-Dollar Cybercrime Industry With ‘Blockchain Thinking’

With cybercrime growing exponentially, this week’s “Money Reimagined” explores a new approach toward risk: a “blockchain mindset” based on principles of openness and decentralization. Hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are joined by Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy at Circle, Dante Disparte, and digital pioneer Pindar Wong, chairman of VeriFi, an internet infrastructure consulting firm.

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Money Reimagined: DC's Digital Dollar Choice

As Washington faces up to the implications of digital currency, it has to decide what it prizes more: surveillance or soft power.

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DAOs, DeFi and Dollars: the Bold New World of Decentralized Entities

In the early days of blockchain technology, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) seemed like a far-out, unattainable idea. How can an organization, a company or a collective manage itself without anyone in charge? “Money Reimagined” explores these systems and their significance. Guests include Rune Christensen, CEO of the Maker Foundation, and Ian Lee of IDEO Co-Lab Ventures and Syndicate, which enables groups of investors to fund DeFi projects.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: Bitcoin's Green Savior?

El Salvador's move to make bitcoin legal tender offers an opportunity to prove that cryptocurrency can power renewable energy development, says CoinDesk's chief content officer.

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Man and the Machine: DeFi’s Regulation Dilemma

DeFi, as the world of decentralized finance is known, is growing up. With venture capital pouring into the space to help it upgrade and scale, in this week’s episode of “Money Reimagined,” Sheila Warren and Michael Casey take a deep dive into where this strange new world of finance goes from here. Guests include Rebecca Rettig, general counsel of Aave, and Marc Boiron, general counsel at decentralized exchange dYdX.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: The Power of Community

Bitcoin's big Florida meetup and CoinDesk's own $DESK project demonstrate a crypto truth: Community precedes technology when creating money.

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