Das Neueste von Michael J. Casey
Nigeria: A Rebellious Hotbed of Crypto Innovation
This week’s “Money Reimagined” is focused on a crypto hot spot, Nigeria. Sheila Warren and Michael Casey talked to two Nigerian entrepreneurs, Yele Bademosi, the CEO of payments app Bundle Africa and Adia Sowho, a venture builder and operator, about the burgeoning crypto innovation ecosystem in their country. Some of their insights and revelations may be surprising.
Sudan and the Human Rights Case for Bitcoin
In this week’s episode of “Money Reimagined,” Sheila Warren and Michael Casey dive into the theme of human rights and the role bitcoin can play as a medium for saving and spending that is free from the confiscatory powers of government, including those of authoritarian regimes. Guests include Alex Gladstein, the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation and activist in Sudan, a person who goes by Mo and the podcaster pseudonym of @SudanHODL.
R3 Corda Helping Thailand’s Case for International Trade Dark Horse
Thailand’s crypto adoption is often overlooked, but one of its largest commercial banks has been leveraging permissioned blockchain Corda of R3 to digitize trade finance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
What’s Next for Investing After Coinbase’s Historic Listing?
In this week’s “Money Reimagined” episode, Sheila Warren and Michael Casey take stock of the most significant development in the crypto space this year: Coinbase’s public listing on the Nasdaq exchange on April 14. Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Vigna and CoinDesk Managing Director of Research Noelle Acheson break down the action, the history of what brought us to this point from when Coinbase first launched in 2012, and what this means for the future – for Coinbase, for the crypto community, for Wall Street and Main Street.
Greensill’s Collapse and How Blockchains Are Changing Trade Finance
With trillions of dollars on the line, the system of global trade finance is a highly complex setup involving banks, insurers, shipping companies, data providers and all manner of intermediaries. On this week’s “Money Reimagined,” Sheila Warren and Michael Casey are joined by blockchain pioneers Tallyx CEO Aditya Menon and Skuchain co-founder Rebecca Liao trying to fix the trade finance industry’s many problems.
Facing Financial Crisis, Can Argentines Look to Bitcoin?
In this week’s edition of “Money Reimagined,” Michael Casey and Sheila Warren take a deep dive into Argentina’s uniquely dysfunctional economic experience. It’s no wonder that Argentina has a relatively high level of bitcoin adoption nor that it has contributed a disproportionately high number of successful developers to the global crypto community. Guests include Lucas Llach, a professor of economics at Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires, and Santiago Siri, the founder of Democracy Earth, a radical, blockchain-based solution for democracy inspired by his struggles to reform government in his native Argentina.
