Michael J. Casey

Michael J. Casey

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.

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This Crisis Will Define the Future of Money
The recent collapse of three high profile banks Silicon Valley Bank Silvergate Bank and Signature Bank has caused worrying outflows at hundreds of regional banks Now with the U S Federal Reserve creating a new backstop facility reportedly worth 2 trillion and Switzerland’s central bank bailing out Credit Suisse to the tune of 54 billion [...]
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How U.S. Judges Might Save Crypto From the SEC
Separation-of-powers offers hope to an industry under attack from unchecked executive power, says Michael Casey, CoinDesk's chief content officer.
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The Energy Crisis: Can Mining Help?
Current energy sources pose several challenges, including grid instability, energy transmission and storage, and harmful byproducts. So what could be our solutions?
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Has Tokenization’s Moment Finally Come?
Tokenization of real-world assets has been dismissed by many crypto purists for operating under a centralized framework, but new technological advances have migrated the process from closed, permissioned projects onto public, permissionless blockchain platforms.
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Staking and the Investing Environment: What Will Gary Gensler Do (WWGGD)?
Regulatory priorities in the crypto ecosystem as two Ethereum protocols merge.
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First Mover Asia: Solana in the Green After Weekend Deep Freeze
ALSO: CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey considers why the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has overreached in its recent actions against crypto entities, and that the crypto industry must improve its lobbying efforts.
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Moshed SEC
Crypto Industry Needs More FTC, Less SEC
The government has great power to curtail the advance of this industry. In the same vein, it has the power to help it. Crypto leaders should recognize that power and seek to harness it constructively.
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Taking a Beat: Recognizing the Victims of FTX Downfall and Celebrating the Journalism That Made It Happen
CoinDesk wins George Polk awards in financial journalism after bringing down the giant.
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CoinDesk's Major Award Is a Huge Moment for Us and Crypto Media Generally
Of all the tasks I have in this job, this one has to be the best.
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Bitcoin Ordinals Can Lift the Entire Crypto Ecosystem
The arrival of the Ordinals Protocol, which allows for the creation of Bitcoin NFTs, has coincided with a big jump in the price of Bitcoin. Add that to the SEC's exemption of Bitcoin from the label of security, and we see a bullish bitcoin picture emerging.
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