015: From Wall Street to Bitcoin with Michael Casey

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