Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Casey is CoinDesk's chief content officer. 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: Ethereum’s Renaissance Creates an Opportunity – And a Major Test
With DeFi and ETH-backed stablecoins booming, and the ETH 2.0 scaling upgrade imminent, the Ethereum community is gaining near-unstoppable momentum.
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Money Reimagined: The Fed, Hertz, a Bonkers Stock Market and why ICOs Still Matter
Illogical stock movements demonstrate the need for new ways to allocate capital. Yes, it's time to talk about token offerings once more.
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Money Reimagined: The Ongoing Crisis Is Stirring a Crypto Awakening in Developing Nations
Peer-to-peer bitcoin transactions are up in the developing world. This has everything to do with "QE Infinity" and could be an opening for stablecoins.
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Decentralization and What Section 230 Really Means for Freedom of Speech
With U.S. President Donald Trump clashing with social media behemoth Twitter, what does the fight over “Section 230” really mean and can decentralization offer a better soluti...
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Money Reimagined: What CoinDesk's Style Debate Says About Crypto as Public Tech
Blockchains are flexible new forms of public infrastructure, says Michael Casey. Plus: with China rushing in, Africa is a prime battleground for the future of money.
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Money Reimagined: Designer Money for a Machine-Run, Post-COVID World
The pandemic is likely to accelerate a shift to automation, putting people out of work and raising the need for new types of money.
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Money Reimagined: No, Secretary Summers, Financial Privacy Is a Vital Freedom
Responding to Larry Summers at Consensus: Distributed this week, Michael Casey argues that money needs more privacy, not less, and that, ultimately, our rights as financial ci...
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Money Reimagined: Fed Spending Is Good for Asset Prices Like Bitcoin, But Lousy For Main Street
The Fed is handing Wall Street an asset inflation payoff while Main Street stares down the barrel of deflation. But bitcoin may benefit.
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Money Reimagined: COVID-19's Lessons in Innovation
Though its impacts are deadly, the coronavirus is a product of an advanced innovation ecosystem. We can learn from its ability to mutate and adapt.
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Money Reimagined: A World Where Privacy and Saving Lives Can Coexist
We don't need to trade our privacy for a better response to the COVID-19 crisis. We need to embrace the full power of cryptography.
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