Michael Casey is the Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, the leading media platform for the blockchain and digital asset community, the author of CoinDesk’s weekly Money Reimagined newsletter, and a co-host of the podcast of the same name. Michael previously spent three years as a Senior Advisor to MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Most of Michael’s career has been as a print journalist, including 18 years at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, where he was last a senior columnist covering global finance. He also hosted online TV shows for WSJ Live and appeared as a commentator on networks such as CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, and the BBC. Michael has five acclaimed books to his name, including two on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology – The Truth Machine and The Age of Cryptocurrency – both co-authored with Paul Vigna.