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

Policy

Money Reimagined: How the Fed Could Fail

Mounting debts and inflation fears could leave central banks hamstrung in the years ahead, leading to the debasement of fiat currencies.

May 14, 2021

Podcasts

The Age of Monetary Transformation, Feat. Bruno Macaes and Tomicah Tillemann

May 14, 2021

Money Reimagined Digital Money Stage at Consensus 2022

Videos

What Do the Laser Eyes Mean, Anyway?

In this week’s “Money Reimagined,” Sheila Warren and Michael Casey address the confusing mixture of memes that drive the narratives around crypto. To do that, they’re joined by Nathaniel Whittemore, host of CoinDesk’s “Breakdown” podcast, and Coin Center’s Neeraj Agrawal to discuss the importance of all this to both the outside world and the strange but fascinating subculture that has formed around the crypto community.

May 8, 2021

Finance

Money Reimagined: NFTs Can Help Create a New Internet

Facebook's Trump decision illustrates the web's over-centralization. But NFTs show the way to a new model of development.

May 7, 2021

Finance

L'argent réinventé : les NFT peuvent aider à créer un nouvel Internet

La décision Trump de Facebook illustre la centralisation excessive du Web. Mais les NFT ouvrent la voie à un nouveau modèle de développement.

May 7, 2021

Finance

Dinheiro reimaginado: NFTs podem ajudar a criar uma nova Internet

A decisão Trump do Facebook ilustra a centralização excessiva da web. Mas os NFTs mostram o caminho para um novo modelo de desenvolvimento.

May 7, 2021

Finance

Denaro reinventato: gli NFT possono aiutare a creare una nuova Internet

La decisione di Trump di Facebook illustra l’eccessiva centralizzazione del web. Ma gli NFT mostrano la strada verso un nuovo modello di sviluppo.

May 7, 2021

Finance

Переосмислення грошей: NFT можуть допомогти створити новий Інтернет

Рішення Facebook про Трампа ілюструє надмірну централізацію Інтернету. Але NFT показують шлях до нової моделі розвитку.

May 7, 2021

Finance

Dinero reinventado: las NFT pueden ayudar a crear una nueva Internet

La decisión de Trump sobre Facebook ilustra la excesiva centralización de la web. Pero las NFT muestran el camino hacia un nuevo modelo de desarrollo.

May 7, 2021

Finance

Переосмысление денег: NFT могут помочь создать новый Интернет

Решение Facebook, принятое Трампом, иллюстрирует чрезмерную централизацию сети. Но НФТ указывают путь к новой модели развития.

May 7, 2021