Senior Advisor - Digital Currency Initiative at MIT's Media Lab
Michael Casey is a Senior Advisor for the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT's Media Lab. A writer and researcher in the fields of economics, finance and digital-currency technology, most of Casey's career was spent as a journalist. That includes 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior columnist covering global economics and markets and where he and colleague Paul Vigna launched the influential BitBeat column on digital currency trends. In the summer of 2015, Casey left the Journal to to join MIT. He is the author of three books, including The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order, which he co-authored with Vigna.