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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Congressman Tom Emmer: ‘Crypto Is Not Partisan’

With Congress expected to approve the U.S. infrastructure bill this month, Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) remains hopeful lawmakers will fix its controversial crypto provision before the law would take effect in 2023. In this episode of “Money Reimagined” with co-hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren, Emmer, co-chair of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus, talks about the crypto industry’s standing in Washington, bipartisan support for crypto that is growing on Capitol Hill, what needs to be done to get meaningful reform, and what’s at stake in terms of U.S. global leadership in technology and finance if that doesn’t happen.

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Crypto Has a Seat at the Table in DC. Now What?

It’s shaping up to be a busy fall for those concerned with crypto regulation in the U.S. “Money Reimagined” reviews key issues, such as the infrastructure bill’s crypto tax-reporting provision, the outlook for exchange-traded funds, and the possibility of an agency turf war over jurisdiction of crypto activities. Co-hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are joined by Jarrod Loadholt, a partner with law firm Ice Miller’s public affairs group, who has previously served as senior counsel to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee, and Nikhilesh De, CoinDesk managing editor for policy and regulation.

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A Cypherpunk’s Crypto Journey – Austin Hill

For this special inaugural “OG edition” of “Money Reimagined,” hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey sit down with crypto entrepreneur, investor and long-time cypherpunk Austin Hill. He is perhaps best known in the crypto community for being the first CEO of Bitcoin development company Blockstream. However, his roots in crypto run much deeper than that, back to before even the arrival of bitcoin. Hill takes us back to those early days, gives his views on how the industry is doing now and what he expects and hopes for the future.

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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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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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