Michael J. Casey

Chief Content Officer

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.

Latest from Michael J. Casey

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How DAOs and Blockchain Technology Can Impact Medical Treatments

Can decentralized organizations help lower the costs of medications and accelerate medical research? Money Reimagined host Michael Casey sits down with Genetic Networks Founder & Chairman Gennaro D’Urso to talk about his efforts to change the inefficiencies of big pharma.

Hul 8, 2022

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Edward Snowden on the Long Road to Internet Privacy

Hul 8, 2022

Money Reimagined Digital Money Stage at Consensus 2022

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CoinDesk Special: 2 Chainz on Music and NFTs

Hul 7, 2022

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The Coming Digital Currency Wars

Hul 1, 2022

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Why the Bretton Woods Committee Is Optimistic About Blockchain Technology

“Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are joined by Bretton Woods Committee Chair William C. Dudley and Commonsense Ventures co-founder Deepika Sharma for an exclusive conversation about a new brief published by the Bretton Woods Committee on positive use cases for blockchain technology. The panel discusses how digital finance could transform financial services, touching on data privacy, low-cost transactions and more.

Hun 24, 2022

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Crypto’s Positive Use Cases: Privacy, Lower Costs and Financial Inclusion

Hun 17, 2022

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DAOs on a Social Mission With Kimbal Musk and Tracey Bowen

Hun 11, 2022

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DAOs on a Social Mission With Kimbal Musk and Tracey Bowen

Live from Consensus in Austin, Texas, “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren sit down with Kimbal Musk, co-founder and executive chairman of Big Green, and H.E.R. DAO Founder Tracey Bowen, to discuss their ESG projects and how DAOs are advancing them.

Hun 10, 2022

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The New Web 3: A Better, Safer and Stronger Internet

Hun 3, 2022

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Web 3: Building a Better, Safer and Stronger Internet

Can blockchain technologies fix the internet and its vexing problems, including those social media has created? “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren sit down with billionaire entrepreneur Frank McCourt to discuss this question and ambitious efforts to rebuild the internet from the ground up. This episode was recorded May 26, 2022 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Hun 3, 2022

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