015: From Wall Street to Bitcoin with Michael Casey

Published: Sept. 21, 2017, 3:27 a.m.

Michael Casey is a Senior Advisor for the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT.

Prior to that, he was a Senior Columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

He spent 18 years covering global economic and financial trends and co-authored The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain are Challenging the Global Economic Order with Paul Vigna. 

In this episode, Michael and I discuss: 

  • His journey from the Wall Street Journal to the MIT Digital Currency Initiative

  • His perspective on ICOs/token sales

  • And how his co-author, Paul Vigna, became motivated to write a book on Cryptocurrency