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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Финансы

NFTs Take Over NYC

Five takeaways from a momentous week for non-fungible tokens.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Финансы

CoinDesk Names Kevin Reynolds Editor-in-Chief

Before joining CoinDesk last year, Kevin was at Bloomberg News for over 23 years, where he started, scaled and ran a hugely popular global news/analysis service for professional clients.

Kevin Reynolds, Editor in Chief

Видео

Christopher Giancarlo: Crypto’s Advocate in DC

“Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren dive into the fascinating topic of central bank digital currencies with the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Christopher Giancarlo. Giancarlo, author of the new book “Crypto Dad,” discusses his vision for a digital dollar, the values and features it can hold, problems with the legacy financial system it can resolve, and the opportunity for the U.S. to issue the most desirable digital sovereign currency in the world.

Money Reimagined

Политика

Jack Dorsey Is Right About Inflation – Partly

The Twitter CEO’s comments reflect a lack of trust in central bank monetary policymaking.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Видео

Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin and the Search for Truth

The 50th edition of the “Money Reimagined” podcast features one of crypto’s most original thinkers: Balaji Srinivasan. Srinivasan is a former CTO of Coinbase, a former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and the founder of 21.co, earn.com, and various other startups. Srinivasan breaks down his arguments for why the future lies in trusting distributed “cryptographic truth” rather than the values of centralized news organizations.

Money Reimagined

Политика

Why a Bitcoin Futures ETF Is Bad for Investors

It takes more than derivatives to contango.

(Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Видео

And Just Like That, the US Has Become a Bitcoin Superpower

“Money Reimagined” explores the ramifications of a startling shift in the world’s top locations for bitcoin mining. The U.S. has leapt into first place and China, the world leader just a few months ago, now has essentially zero mining capacity following a regulatory crackdown there in June. Co-hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren talk to Justin Podhola, the CEO of Elite Mining, and George Kaloudis, who leads CoinDesk’s Bitcoin-focused research.

Money Reimagined