Money Reimagined

This episode is sponsored by EY. The crypto community is faced with the challenge of scalability. Can we build a blockchain that is secure, permissionless and scalable? And what needs to happen in order for people all over the world to start using it easily?  The answer to the first question is still up for debate. There are many different solutions being proposed, but no clear consensus has emerg...

UST, the algorithmic stablecoin created by Terraform Labs, was de-pegged this week from the U.S. dollar.  UST's price initially dropped from a one-to-one U.S. dollar value to 60 cents and then fell further. The cause of the de-pegging is due to the sell-off in crypto and in financial markets. The price drop in UST highlights the risks associated with cryptocurrencies and their volatility, which fu...

This episode is sponsored by EY. Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are enabling entrepreneurs to rapidly raise funding and reach global markets in countries where traditional structures might not be effective or even available. Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey is Geoffrey See, founder of Choson Exchange, an organization training North Koreans in entrepre...

Blockchains are systems of governance written into code, algorithms dictating how users behave. The question of who gets to develop these systems and these rules becomes immensely important. Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are Susan Joseph, executive director of fintech at Cornell, and Cleve Mesidor, executive director of the Blockchain Foundation. The guests provi...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Quantstamp and EY. The tone in Washington has shifted over the past year, with lawmakers joining regulators in recognizing that the crypto industry should be taken seriously. But how does Washington actually see crypto? To answer this question, “Money Reimagined” host Sheila Warren is joined by two guests intimately familiar with the attitudes of Capitol Hill:...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Quantstamp and EY. U.S. securities laws, largely dating back to the 1930s, are proving to be a challenge to integrate into the developing world of blockchain technology. Joining this episode of “Money Reimagined” with Sheila Warren and Michael Casey is Chris Brummer, Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Brummer introduces what defines a securi...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Quantstamp and EY. Critics of blockchain forensic technology see the surveillance as a breach of a vital right to privacy. But the privacy features that blockchain technology introduces isn’t in its secrecy, but in its transparency. Simone Maini, CEO of blockchain analytics company Elliptic joins “Money Reimagined” with hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren to...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Quantstamp and EY. “While there is quite a bit of interest, there's still quite a bit of skepticism” when it comes to crypto solutions for humanitarian aid, Jeremiah Centrella says.  Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey is Jeremiah Centrella, a partner at the law firm of Nichols Liu and former general counsel at Mercy Corps. Centrel...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. Our faith in the reliability of digital media is, simply put, broken. The proliferation of disinformation online has seeped into all aspects of life. Elections, the pandemic, and now, a war are all targets of organized campaigns to obfuscate or even rewrite truth and facts. At the same time, censorship of vulnerable populations is on the rise, o...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. Explorations into digital currency technologies will shape the evolution of the global financial system, so understanding the African continent’s approach to money is key. Joining this episode of “Money Reimagined” with hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey is Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO of African fintech firm AZA Finance. Rossiello previously joi...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) joins “Money Reimagined” with Sheila Warren and Michael Casey to reflect on the impact of the infrastructure bill, explain the difficulties of applying regulation to an evolving technology and take a look at where policy on stablecoins and token investing might be headed. When the infrastructure bill introduced language t...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. Crypto’s public image has been dominated in the past week by two contrasting perspectives: financial freedom and sanctions evasion. While the Ukrainian resistance has raised millions in crypto donations when traditional fundraising methods failed, some call for regulation to prevent Russia from using crypto to evade sanctions.  Jonathan Levin, c...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. During CoinDesk’s Tax Week, “Money Reimagined” hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey dive into the fears and debates around crypto during tax season. Last year’s infrastructure bill called out crypto taxing directly, and in the time since, regulators have attempted to retrofit old rules and concepts to the completely new world of digital assets....

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. As discussions around NFTs have increased in frequency, they are also increasingly divisive. Some see NFTs as the ultimate solution to all that is wrong with Web 2.0, while others see a space rife with plagiarism, fraud and false ownership. This week on “Money Reimagined,” hosts Sheila Warren and Michael Casey are joined by two individuals well...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. “I think that the philosophy of cryptocurrency, the decentralization concept, wasn't meant to be a speculation opportunity.” Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren is crypto OG Francesco Rulli. Rulli’s career history ranges from founding a fashion company with actor John Malkovich, to building a film distribution networ...

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io and Quantstamp. Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren is Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Parity Technologies, which produces Polkadot. More recently, Wood founded the Web3 Foundation, an organization aiming to fund development teams building the decentralized internet. First, Wood walks through the founding ideals of...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Nexo.io. Just in time for CoinDesk’s Privacy Week, this episode takes a deep dive into the ideals, tools and future of privacy and crypto, addressing all facets of privacy in Web 3. Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are two guests familiar with not just the privacy pitfalls of today’s internet, but the possible solutions av...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Nexo.io. “I don't think we should feel like this is going to be entirely a good thing … if Web 3 is becoming more like the offline world, in the sense of being exclusive and gate-kept in the ways that our physical world has been for so long.” Web 3, the metaverse and NFTs have potential to be a force for good in the world, to improve decentralization, ra...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Nexo.io. In theory, crypto and blockchain technology present unique opportunities to improve, accelerate and strengthen global aid efforts. In practice, geopolitical challenges and complexities in distribution hinder projects before they’ve even had a chance to deploy the new technology. Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren ar...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Nexo.io. “We can’t use 1920s to 1940s definitions in securities laws for digital assets … We need to bring our laws into the 21st century,” Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) says. Cryptocurrency has emerged as a topic around which representatives from both sides of the aisle can create coalitions with aligned interests and values while constructively disagreeing...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin.  For the last day for 2021 and the end of a two-week break for Money Reimagined, we’re serving up the second of two of our favorite episodes from the past year.  Michael Casey’s pick was the episode from Sept. 15, not because that’s his birthday and not only because in that one he had the pleasure of meeting co-host Sheila Warren’s “chit...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin.  This week and next we’re taking a year-end holiday from new episodes of “Money Reimagined.” Instead, we’re serving up a couple of our favorites from this year.  This week’s pick was Sheila Warren’s: the Haiti episode from May 21.  That’s when Sheila and co-host Michael Casey were joined by Jerry Tardieu, a Haitian author, entrepreneur a...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin. Joining “Money Reimagined” hosts Michael Casey and Sheila Warren are Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Matt Homer, who is the former executive deputy superintendent for research and innovation at the New York Department of Financial Services. The two walk through the expected crypto integrations coming to their cities and the anticipated ch...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin. On this week’s “Money Reimagined” podcast, Michael Casey and Sheila Warren discuss with CoinDesk’s managing editor of global policy and regulation, Nikhilesh De, his recent review of another cryptocurrency-themed hearing on Capitol Hill by the House Financial Services Committee. “Today's hearing is part of this committee’s ongoing [effor...

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin. This week’s “Money Reimagined” podcast comes to you from Miami, where the annual Art Basel event spawned an explosion of sub-conferences and parties associated with non-fungible tokens (NFT).  There, we ran into Pierina Merino, the founder of FlickPlay, an exciting new app that combines real-world, camera-captured imagery with digital ar...