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Michael Casey

Chairman, Decentralized AI Society · 1 appearance on the record.

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Michael Casey is the Chairman of the Decentralized AI Society and a prominent financial journalist and author. He previously spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal and served as Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk.

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1 assertion · 1 opinion · 6 insights · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertion are the 1 claim: statements the public record can support or contradict. 0 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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What the tape says about how Michael argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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274 words/min while actually speaking · 28.4 um and uh per 1k words · 27.9 false starts per 1k · 37.1% of pauses land inside a clause

No argument clarity score for Michael Casey: only 2 usable question→answer exchanges on raw tape (a fair score needs 8+). We do not score a sample that small. Roundtable and news formats yield far fewer direct exchanges than interviews.

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 2,536 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Michael Casey said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Casey: Real-time settlement would unleash trillions in idle capital
“Because you've got three-day settlement times, that's trillions of dollars that's just sitting on the sidelines that has to wait until it is actually cleared by the system to then get back to work, right? So that's, you unleash, you just, By going from three t…”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:05 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Insight
Casey: Framing Bitcoin as a 'trustless' system is a problematic mistake
“One of the reasons why I think they struggle with that is because they've come up with this meme that I think is actually problematic, and that is that there's no, we're a trustless activity. We don't need trust anymore. It's like, no, no, you absolutely do ne…”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:46 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Insight
Casey: Interest in developing world Bitcoin adoption is top-down, not bottom-up
“As to whether that's actually sort of coming from there, the interest, it's kind of, it's a top-down level of interest rather than bottom-up.”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:58 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Opinion
Casey: Wall Street sits between dismissal and curiosity on Bitcoin
“Wall Street, of course, is a, you know, huge, amorphous mass of people but if you were to kind of collectivize the thinking, I think they're possibly on the border of, they're not at the oh fuck moment... Ultimately, I think that they're at, The third stage. I…”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:32 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Insight
Casey defines money as a multi-layered ledger tracking system
“Money in fact is, A ledger. It is a ledger that's built around multiple ledgers in reality, some of which are in our heads, some of which are inside banks, and in this, it's the system for keeping track of value, and keeping track of ownership, keeping track o…”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:09 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Insight
Casey: Bitcoin replaces central intermediaries with community blockchain consensus
“Bitcoin is a solution to that, because it outsources that role, that intermediation of trust, to the entire community. And it finds a, you know, a fascinating, unique instrument that, you know, that is the blockchain and the consensus process through which the…”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:28 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Casey: International digital money transfers cost more than shipping physical goods
“The model as it is, is just really expensive and inefficient, right? I mean, it costs more money, ah, and in many cases more time even, to send money, which is nothing more than bits and bytes, right? Digital money from one place in the world to another than i…”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:14 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance
Insight
Casey: Bitcoin's primary use case is developing world remittances
“There's a sort of a consensus, really, that the biggest use case is, is sort of resolving the problems of the developing world, where there's a lot of You know, it's very expensive to move money, send remittances, and there's a lot of people who literally don'…”
Michael Casey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:55 a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Acceptance

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | The Five Stages of Bitcoin -- Disdain, Dismissal, Curiosity, Oh F**k!, and Jan 2, 2019 11m
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