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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Iran's Bitcoin Bet and the Money Wars to Come

Iran's push to license bitcoin mining could help it evade U.S. sanctions. But the plan is likely to help some of its people more than others.

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Sudan and the Human Rights Case for Bitcoin

In this week’s episode of “Money Reimagined,” Sheila Warren and Michael Casey dive into the theme of human rights and the role bitcoin can play as a medium for saving and spending that is free from the confiscatory powers of government, including those of authoritarian regimes. Guests include Alex Gladstein, the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation and activist in Sudan, a person who goes by Mo and the podcaster pseudonym of @SudanHODL.

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Dogecoin and the New Meaning of Money

Dogecoin's popularity reflects big power shifts due to social media and twin financial crises. There's no more important story for the reimagination of money, says CoinDesk's chief content officer.

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R3 Corda Helping Thailand’s Case for International Trade Dark Horse

Thailand’s crypto adoption is often overlooked, but one of its largest commercial banks has been leveraging permissioned blockchain Corda of R3 to digitize trade finance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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What’s Next for Investing After Coinbase’s Historic Listing?

In this week’s “Money Reimagined” episode, Sheila Warren and Michael Casey take stock of the most significant development in the crypto space this year: Coinbase’s public listing on the Nasdaq exchange on April 14. Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Vigna and CoinDesk Managing Director of Research Noelle Acheson break down the action, the history of what brought us to this point from when Coinbase first launched in 2012, and what this means for the future – for Coinbase, for the crypto community, for Wall Street and Main Street.

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Money Reimagined: Can Coinbase Live on The Street?

Coinbase's listing ties the company to a centralized system that encourages short-termism over long-term growth, says our chief content officer.

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Greensill’s Collapse and How Blockchains Are Changing Trade Finance

With trillions of dollars on the line, the system of global trade finance is a highly complex setup involving banks, insurers, shipping companies, data providers and all manner of intermediaries. On this week’s “Money Reimagined,” Sheila Warren and Michael Casey are joined by blockchain pioneers Tallyx CEO Aditya Menon and Skuchain co-founder Rebecca Liao trying to fix the trade finance industry’s many problems.

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