The Truth Machine Book Launch: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna review the main themes of their new book, The Truth Machine, which is a sequel to their widely acclaimed prior joint effort, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order."

Paul Vigna is a markets reporter for the" Wall Street Journal", covering equities and the economy. He is a columnist and anchor for MoneyBeat. Previously a writer and editor of the MarketTalk column in DowJones Newswires, he has been a guest on the Fox Business Network, CNN, the BBC, and the John Batchelor radio show. He has been interviewed by "Bitcoin" magazine and appeared on the "Bitcoins & Gravy" podcast, and he boasts a collective twenty years of journalism experience. They explore the potential power of blockchain technology's decentralized system of record-keeping to address the age-old problem of human trust and look at the many disruptive use cases it presents, as well as the challenges faced in scaling and developing the technology before these are viable.

A native of Perth, Western Australia, Michael Casey is a special advisor at the MIT Media Lab, where he works on applications of the decentralizing technology behind bitcoin and other digital currencies. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board for CoinDesk, the leading news, information and events provider for the digital asset and blockchain community. Before joining MIT, he was a columnist at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, where he spent 18 years covering global economics and finance. Agenda:

Networking - 1:00 - 1:30

Presentation - 1:30 - 2:30

Q&A - 2:30 - 3:00