Ep 8 - Michael Casey - Data, Privacy, and Decentralization

Hosted by Enigma's Head of Growth Tor Bair, our eighth episode features Michael Casey. Michael Casey is a hugely influential voice in the blockchain and decentralization space, as a writer, educator, advisor, and many other roles. He spent over 18 years at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires before joining the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, where he is now a senior advisor. He is the author of multiple books, including The Age of Cryptocurrency and his most recent book, The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything. Michael also serves as chairman of the advisory board at CoinDesk, where he still writes a weekly column, and he's recently started a new company: Network Effects. Michael discusses with Tor how he first got interested in the blockchain and decentralization space, the potential impact of global regulation, how popular social platforms fail at decentralization and privacy, how journalists can better measure and communicate the value of decentralized technologies and projects, and, for at least a couple minutes, crowdsourced singing holograms. Enigma's new podcast "Decentralize This!" features guests from all over the decentralization space: developers, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, writers, artists, people in government and enterprise - all individuals who care deeply about building a more decentralized and sustainable world. How can all these people with different perspectives collaborate to create and scale the technologies we need to shape a better future? ---- Relevant links: Michael's Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikejcasey Michael's columns: https://www.coindesk.com/author/mikejcasey/ Michael's books: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-J.-Casey/e/B001JRYOHI Enigma: www.enigma.co Enigma Blog: blog.enigma.co Enigma Twitter: www.twitter.com/enigmampc