Michael Casey is the Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, the leading media platform for the blockchain and digital asset community. and a cofounder of Streambed Media, a digital media data management platform. Casey was previously Senior Advisor to MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. Before that, he was a global finance columnist at The Wall Street Journal, after two decades in various journalistic roles worldwide. He has published five books, including The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything and The Age of Cryptocurrency, both co-authored with Paul Vigna.