Former WSJ Reporter to Advise MIT Media Lab on Bitcoin
Former Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Casey has been appointed senior advisor of MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative to help raise bitcoin awareness. The journalist, known for his work with Paul Vigna on The Age of Cryptocurrency and their regular WSJ column BitBeat - which covered developments in the crypto space - will take up his post at the beginning of September. After 23 years in journalism, Casey's change of career is largely due to the transformative potential of digital currencies, he said in a statement.
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