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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Переосмислення грошей: NFT можуть допомогти створити новий Інтернет

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

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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.

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Nigeria: A Rebellious Hotbed of Crypto Innovation

This week’s “Money Reimagined” is focused on a crypto hot spot, Nigeria. Sheila Warren and Michael Casey talked to two Nigerian entrepreneurs, Yele Bademosi, the CEO of payments app Bundle Africa and Adia Sowho, a venture builder and operator, about the burgeoning crypto innovation ecosystem in their country. Some of their insights and revelations may be surprising.

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Iran's Bitcoin Bet and the Money Wars to Come

Iran's push to license bitcoin mining could help it evade U.S. sanctions. But the plan is likely to help some of its people more than others.

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