Latest from Michael J. Casey
Money Reimagined: Demand for USD Stablecoins Foreshadows Financial Disruption
The pandemic has increased demand for USD-backed stablecoins, raising the prospect of "crypto-dollarization." The implications are enormous.

Money Reimagined: As Tech, Politics and COVID-19 Collide, a Global Reset Looms
How technology, geopolitics and the coronavirus crisis are transforming how we share and store value.

Data Sets You Free: Self-Quarantine Diary, Day 3
Coronavirus underscores the value of mass trustworthy data to aid community decisions on our economic and social wellbeing, says CoinDesk's Michael Casey.

Extreme Social Distancing: Self-Quarantine Diary, Day 1
How did we get in this mess? How do we get out of it? What will the post-coronavirus world look like? First in an occasional series.

CoinDesk Takes Consensus 2020 Virtual
Consensus 2020 will be a virtual experience, bringing together the entire community.

Why Aren't the Candidates Talking About Digital Currency?
Given the threat to US interests posed by a digital yuan and similar projects, you might think candidates would have positions on the future of money. Not so much.

When Money Becomes Programmable – Part 1
We may be moving us toward a model of programmable money that incorporates an automated internal governance of common resources and encourages collaboration among communities.

Davos Needs to Wake Up to the Ills of Centralization
The lens of decentralization reveals a number of elephants in the room that world leaders at the WEF are missing.

A Decade of Quantitative Easing Has Paved the Way for the Age of Digital Currency
Ten years of central bank quantitative easing have fostered big distortions in the global financial system, setting it up for a major architectural shift.

Introducing the New CoinDesk.com
We’ve done a complete rebuild of our website. Our goal is to better integrate the journalism, data streams and events into one cohesive story.
