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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The Unlikely Fix to Crypto's Privacy Failures: Government

The industry can't change what ails Web 2 without support from states like the U.S.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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NFTs: Boom, Bust or Balance Out in 2022?

“Money Reimagined” hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey sit down with two individuals well versed in NFTs: the NFT analyst and cohost of “Edge of NFTs” podcast Eathan Janney; and the NFT evangelist, musician and entrepreneur Scott Page. Janney and Page dive into the many complexities of NFTs, ranging from property rights to social impacts. As NFTs continue to evolve, will they empower creators, or will they become instruments of corporate greed?

Money Reimagined

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Getting Beyond the Good-Bad NFT Debate

Non-fungible tokens represent a step-change in online property rights and are key to the next stage of the internet.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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Crypto’s True Value: Social Good, Featuring Bitcoin OG Francesco Rulli

Will NFTs develop as a force for good? Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren is crypto OG Francesco Rulli. Rulli’s career history ranges from founding a fashion company with actor John Malkovich to building a film distribution network to creating a bitcoin-based payments program for young female students in Afghanistan to helping guide the cathedral in Florence, Italy, through a digital transformation. He shares the stories of his work and his vision for NFTs.

Money Reimagined

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Crypto’s Challenge: Right-to-Privacy vs. Right-to-Know

Two recent stories highlight the tension between an individual's right to anonymity and journalism's public mission.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

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Layer Zero, Web 3: Gavin Wood on Polkadot and the Future of the Internet

“Web 3” is not just a buzzword, it is an increasingly important step in the evolution of the internet. That, according to Gavin Wood, founder of Polkadot and the Web3 Foundation, and previously co-founder of Ethereum. Wood joins “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren to discuss the path to Web 3 and his focus on decentralization.

Money Reimagined

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India's Tough Crypto Stance Has a Silver Lining

How a central bank digital currency meant to stifle crypto could end up benefitting it.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)