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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Markets

Decentralization and What Section 230 Really Means for Freedom of Speech

With U.S. President Donald Trump clashing with social media behemoth Twitter, what does the fight over “Section 230” really mean and can decentralization offer a better solution?

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Policy

Money Reimagined: What CoinDesk's Style Debate Says About Crypto as Public Tech

Blockchains are flexible new forms of public infrastructure, says Michael Casey. Plus: with China rushing in, Africa is a prime battleground for the future of money.

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Tech

Money Reimagined: Designer Money for a Machine-Run, Post-COVID World

The pandemic is likely to accelerate a shift to automation, putting people out of work and raising the need for new types of money.

Starship delivery robots (Credit: Starship)

Policy

Money Reimagined: No, Secretary Summers, Financial Privacy Is a Vital Freedom

Responding to Larry Summers at Consensus: Distributed this week, Michael Casey argues that money needs more privacy, not less, and that, ultimately, our rights as financial citizens are at stake.

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Markets

Money Reimagined: Fed Spending Is Good for Asset Prices Like Bitcoin, But Lousy For Main Street

The Fed is handing Wall Street an asset inflation payoff while Main Street stares down the barrel of deflation. But bitcoin may benefit.

Edvard Munch's "The Scream." (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Finance

Money Reimagined: COVID-19's Lessons in Innovation

Though its impacts are deadly, the coronavirus is a product of an advanced innovation ecosystem. We can learn from its ability to mutate and adapt.

Photo by Jason Ortego on Unsplash

Tech

Money Reimagined: A World Where Privacy and Saving Lives Can Coexist

We don't need to trade our privacy for a better response to the COVID-19 crisis. We need to embrace the full power of cryptography.

Photo by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash

Markets

Money Reimagined: Demand for USD Stablecoins Foreshadows Financial Disruption

The pandemic has increased demand for USD-backed stablecoins, raising the prospect of "crypto-dollarization." The implications are enormous.

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Policy

Money Reimagined: As Tech, Politics and COVID-19 Collide, a Global Reset Looms

How technology, geopolitics and the coronavirus crisis are transforming how we share and store value.

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Markets

Data Sets You Free: Self-Quarantine Diary, Day 3

Coronavirus underscores the value of mass trustworthy data to aid community decisions on our economic and social wellbeing, says CoinDesk's Michael Casey.

THE BEST DISINFECTANT: Coronavirus underscores the value of mass trustworthy data to aid community decisions on our economic and social wellbeing. (Credit: Shutterstock)