USC is hosting: Banking on Bitcoin, CoinDesk, and Wall Street Journal Event

USC, CCI, the Trojan Blockchain Society, and the LA Blockchain Lab are pleased to host an evening of Everything Blockchain with Michael Casey, Chairman of CoinDesk, Chris Cannucciari, Director of "Banking on Bitcoin," and Paul Vigna, Cryptocurrency Reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

Michael Casey, CoinDesk Chairman

Michael Casey is a Senior Advisor at MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative, where he heads research into blockchain applications that advance financial inclusion and energy efficiency. He also holds a position as senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Formerly a journalist at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter, bureau chief, managing editor and eventually a columnist covering global economics, Casey keeps his hand in the media business via a role as Chairman of the Advisory Board at CoinDesk, the leading media outlet and events coordinator for the digital asset and blockchain industry. He is the author of five books, including The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, which he recently published with his co-author Paul Vigna. It was a follow-up to a prior collaboration from three years earlier, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order.

Paul Vigna, "Wall Street Journal"

Paul Vigna is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and has been a journalist for more than 25 years, as a reporter, editor, and photographer.

He currently covers the cryptocurrency sector, including bitcoin, other digital currencies, and blockchain-related technologies. He formerly was an equities reporter on the MoneyBeat blog, writing about markets, economics, and finance. He was host of both the MoneyBeat show, a daily live webcast, and the MoneyBeat podcast. He also writes about television and arts, with a weekly recap column for “The Walking Dead.”

He has spoken extensively across media, including CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox and Fox Business, and PBS. He has spoken at both South by Southwest and New York Comic Con, and myriad other conferences. He is a frequent guest on podcasts, including Chuck Todd's 1947 Podcast and Barry Ritholtz's Masters in Business.

He is co-author, along with Michael J. Casey, of “The Age of Cryptocurrency” (2015, St. Martin’s Press) and “The Truth Machine” (Feb. 27, 2018, St. Martin’s Press).

He is also author of “Guts: The Anatomy of The Walking Dead,” (October 2017, Dey Street Books).