Michael J. Casey is the Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, the leading media platform for the blockchain and digital asset ecosystem. He authors CoinDesk’s weekly Money Reimagined newsletter and co-hosts the podcast of the same name.. Michael was previously Senior Advisor to MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Before that, he spent 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. He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia and has higher degrees from Cornell University and Curtin University.