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: Bitcoin vs. Gold Is a Battle of Narratives

The success of a store-of-value asset, like bitcoin or gold, isn't just a matter of durability, fungibility or scarcity. It's about whether people believe in it.

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Bitcoin Is the Biggest Big Short

Short-sellers help identify weaknesses in capital markets. Bitcoin helps us see what's wrong with the financial system.

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Money Reimagined: The US' Kodak Moment

China's moves on digital currency have potential to rock the global economy. The U.S. risks getting left behind, like Kodak.

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Money Reimagined: Crypto-Informed Ideas for the Future of Government

The latest column from CoinDesk's chief content officer features big ideas for rethinking government in the internet age.

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Money Reimagined: Who Are the Real Monsters?

Next to the frightening creatures of the legacy financial system, bitcoin is the normal, wholesome outlier, like the niece from TV’s “The Munsters.”

1964 publicity photo for "The Munsters"