Michael J. Casey
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New York, NY, United States
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TradFi Investors Will Love Ethereum’s Merge
The impact of the big shift to proof-of-stake are not priced into the market for ether, says CoinDesk's chief content officer. → Read More
Building Trust in Crypto With Blockchain Analytics
Is surveillance a breach of a vital right to privacy? → Read More
Michael Casey: DC's Digital Dollar Choice
As Washington faces up to the implications of digital currency, it has to decide what it prizes more: surveillance or soft power. → Read More
Michael Casey: Why Quantitative Easing Is Here to Stay
The U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status, seen as a source of American might, is now hindering the Federal Reserve’s monetary sovereignty. → Read More
Michael Casey: Musk Masters the Attention Economy
Bitcoin's recent surge shows the power of celebrity and how, like it or not, influencers create value in the modern economy. → Read More
CoinDesk's Twitter Hack Proved the Media Can't Rely on Web 2.0
Last week's Twitter hack, which downed a key CoinDesk channel for seven days, showed how news groups are overly dependent on social media. → Read More
What CoinDesk's Style Debate Says About Crypto as Public Tech-
Blockchains are flexible new forms of public infrastructure, says Michael Casey. Plus: Africa is a prime battleground for the future of money. → Read More
A Glimpse of Banking’s Future, Live on the Ethereum Blockchain
Last week, Frenching bank Societe Generale revealed that it has issued a security token-like bond on ethereum. But rather than using a private iteration, SocGen used the public blockchain. → Read More
Crypto Is Far From Dead, as These Scaling Projects Show
Far from seeing the death of crypto, we may be entering its most exciting phase, argues Michael J. Casey. → Read More
Crypto Winter Is Here and We Only Have Ourselves to Blame
Last year's mania perpetuated a narrative that making speculative gains was bitcoin’s core value proposition, writes Michael J. Casey. → Read More
Crypto Winter Is Here and We Only Have Ourselves to Blame
Last year's mania perpetuated a narrative that making speculative gains was bitcoin’s core value proposition, writes Michael J. Casey. → Read More
World Bank Bond Blockchain Offers Key Insights
Is it time to rethink private blockchains? The World Bank's "blockchain bond" success has reinvigorated that question. → Read More
Losing the Lambos: It's Time to Get Serious About Crypto's Big Questions
The crypto community should use this moment to forget about price fluctuations and engage the world in a discussion about blockchain tech's potential. → Read More
A Blueprint for Reforming the Crypto Token Market
The Token Alliance, a Chamber of Digital Commerce initiative, has laid out guidelines for how token sponsors and regulators can meet in the middle. → Read More
Don't Let the Crypto Circus in Congress Fool You
Washington understands cryptocurrency better than this week's circus on Capitol Hill suggests, writes Michael J. Casey. → Read More
Market Mania Is Unavoidable, But Crypto Must Get Past It
There has to be broad-based value to society if blockchain technology and the market it supports are to survive and prosper, argues Michael J. Casey. → Read More
Regulators Are Slowly Starting to Get It: Utility Tokens Are Real
Regulators are doing their homework and recognizing there's at least potentially something different going on here from what they're used to seeing. → Read More
It's Too Soon for On-Chain Governance
The EOS governance disaster offers a strong reminder of how entrenched human mistrust can be difficult to overcome. → Read More
Privacy Is Vital to Crypto – And the Global Economy
Privacy is needed to enhance the "moneyness" of cryptocurrency. As it is, our entire global system of money has also seen its fungibility deteriorate. → Read More
Central Banks Will Jump-Start the Decentralization of Money
While the thought may disappoint cypherpunks, the first step of a transition toward a true "money of the people" will be implemented by central banks. → Read More