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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Money Reimagined: OnlyFans and the Threat to Free Speech

A now-overturned decision to ban porn shows how banks and the state interfere with legal activities, and why cryptocurrency is needed.

OnlyFans has overturned a planned ban on porn content.

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Inside India’s Aadhaar, the World’s Largest Biometric ID System

Blockchain technology has brought conversations around decentralization, anonymity, agency and empowerment to the broader world. “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are joined by two experts to discuss digital security and privacy in India: Dr. Usha Ramanathan, a lawyer and human rights activist in India, and Marta Belcher, general counsel of Protocol Labs, chair of the Filecoin Foundation and special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Money Reimagined: Afghan Activist Roya Mahboob on Crypto

Bitcoin surely doesn't "fix" Afghanistan, but it "could play a very important role” as an alternative financial system.

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The Nixon Shock: 50 Years of Money Without Gold

50 years ago this week, President Richard Nixon made his drastic decision to remove the dollar from its peg to gold, effectively ending the Bretton Woods-managed exchange rate system that had been in place since 1944, starting the era of fiat currencies. “Money Reimagined” observes the anniversary with a discussion about the future of money with Cornell University professor Eswar Prasad and CoinDesk managing editor of podcasts Adam B. Levine.

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Money Reimagined: A Turning Point for Crypto

Even as crypto lost a battle over taxes in Congress this week, it felt like a victory, says CoinDesk's chief content officer.

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Against the US Senate’s Heavy-Handed Crypto Provision

The bill as written has the potential to thrust every single transaction by U.S. crypto users into an invasive dragnet.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), right, speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), at the Capitol on Saturday.

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What Ireland’s ‘Regulatory Arbitrage’ Success Story Means for Crypto

A common concern among regulators is the lack of consistency in cryptocurrency rules worldwide, but how far should governments go toward harmonizing their rules? This episode of “Money Reimagined” goes to Ireland to create a friendly regulatory framework for the crypto industry. Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are joined by Michael O’Sullivan, economist and author of “The Levelling,” which describes the post-globalization era and Lory Kehoe, director, Digital Assets & Blockchain at BNY Mellon and the founder of Blockchain Ireland.

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