The Future of Blockchain Technology: Building It Decentralized, Secure and Efficient
The core challenges facing the crypto community as they strive toward mass adoption.
Michael J. Casey is CoinDesk's chief content officer. 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.
The core challenges facing the crypto community as they strive toward mass adoption.
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DAOs present entrepreneurs in emerging markets with a new way to raise capital and reach a global audience.
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Education, access and opportunity are critical to improving diversity in the crypto industry.
The divide between the speed of crypto innovations and the lag of policy.
Global adoption makes regulating crypto inside national siloes futile.