Live at PubKey

The Mises Caucus ladies (Angela McArdle and Amber Harris) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to celebrate the long-awaited freedom of Ross Ulbricht and to take a LIVE call from Roman Storm, the developer of Tornado Cash. Plus:A deep dive into the DOJ’s prosecution of the Samourai Wallet developersHow to use ballot access and convention optics to force Bitcoin pardons onto the national campaign agendaWhy the Ross Ulbricht, Roman Storm, and Keonne Rodruiguez cases should be treated as a unified front in the fight against financial surveillance and de-bankingHow financial privacy prosecutions are a precursor to social credit systems, enforced conformity, and state-managed behaviorWhat Roman Storm and Keonne Rodriguez have to say to a live audience...and more!SIGN THE PETITIONS to advocate justice for open-source developers:freeromanstorm.orgfreeiannow.orgbillandkeonne.org▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cultural venue located in New York City and Washington D.C. (With more locations coming!) We host FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC events for the curious, the rebellious, and the orange-pilled.Visit PubKey:🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011🇺🇸 PubKey D.C.🇺🇸 410 7th St NW🇺🇸 Washington, DC 20004🧡 Register for FREE weekly meetups and events: https://luma.com/user/pubkey🍔 Check out our food menu (yes, we discount 21% if you pay in BTC!): https://pubkey.bar/menuSometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym.Est. 735075.

The Coin Based boys (ArbedOut and Thomas Pacchia) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to discuss the latest Bitcoin technical buzz, Bitcoin Knots Flag Day, and:ArbedOut's steelman of Bitcoin Knots (and why even the best Knots steelman fails under its own logic)Why CSAM and terrorism keep reappearing as rhetorical dead-ends in protocol disputesThe real stakes of BIP-110 and other proposals (do soft forks implicitly rewrite Bitcoin's social contract?)The interlinked relationships between node costs, UTXO bloat, protocol design, and political powerWhether filtering hostile data creates new choke points for governments, miners, and regulatorsThe uncomfortable idea that Bitcoin’s biggest threats may be social and political, not technical...and more!▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cultural venue located in New York City and Washington D.C. (With more locations coming!) We host FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC events for the curious, the rebellious, and the orange-pilled.Visit PubKey:🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011🇺🇸 PubKey D.C.🇺🇸 410 7th St NW🇺🇸 Washington, DC 20004🧡 Register for FREE weekly meetups and events: https://luma.com/user/pubkey🍔 Check out our food menu (yes, we discount 21% if you pay in BTC!): https://pubkey.bar/menuSometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym.Est. 735075.

Preston Byrne (Managing Partner at Byrne & Storm) and host Thomas Pacchia take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to discuss the U.K.'s new Internet censorship law, deceptively named the "Online Safety Act." Plus: How the U.K.’s Online Safety Act attempts to criminalize constitutionally protected American speech (and impose extraterritorial censorship)How Preston coordinated a unified resistance strategy against the United KingdomThe danger of a future where foreign regulators and domestic convenience culture erode anonymity, encryption, and online free expressionWhy the UK’s free-speech collapse illustrates the bottom of the slippery slope (and what prevents the U.S. from following it)The complete failure of big law firms to defend free speech... and why only small independent counsel might be the last defense against these casesThe blueprint for restoring global free speech and exporting First Amendment free speech principles abroad...and more!▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cultural venue located in New York City and Washington D.C. (With more locations coming!) We host FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC events for the curious, the rebellious, and the orange-pilled.Visit PubKey:🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011🇺🇸 PubKey D.C.🇺🇸 410 7th St NW🇺🇸 Washington, DC 20004🧡 Register for FREE weekly meetups and events: https://luma.com/user/pubkey🍔 Check out our food menu (yes, we discount 21% if you pay in BTC!): https://pubkey.bar/menuSometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym.Est. 735075.

CK (HRF Director of Financial Freedom) and Femi Longe (HRF Global Bitcoin Lead) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to discuss the Bitcoin Development Fund's mission to empower devs, activists, and human rights defenders across the globe—billions of sats at a time. Plus: Why the fund gives MILLIONS in BTC every quarter to projects around the world Why WhatsApp is NOT freedom tech... and why it still succeeds where Signal fails Do Bitcoiners preach too much—and build too little? Why marketing, unfortunately, matters just as much as math and fundamentals How (and why) to scale Bitcoin in the global south Why the world doesn't need another Bitcoin wallet or crypto exchange (and what the world needs instead) ...and more!▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PubKey meetups are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Join us to ask live questions and enjoy a pint together. Good food, bad opinions, great company.🧡 NYC Meetups: ⁠https://luma.com/user/pubkey⁠🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011Follow us on X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/PubKey⁠

Max Raskin (NYU School of Law) and David Yermack (NYU Stern School of Business) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show in PubKey NYC to discuss how academia is grappling with Bitcoin: what gets taught, what gets missed, and why it matters. Plus: How NYU became the first university to teach cryptocurrencyHow you can get orangep-pilled from Pynchon'sThe Crying of Lot 49How Max Raskin went from Austrian economics nerd to early crypto reporterWhat Michelle Obama’s fashion choices and CEO private jets taught Professor Yermack about marketsInside the faculty wars: how Bitcoin went from fringe topic to NYU curriculumA first-hand look at why most economists still dismiss BitcoinHow NYU Law teaches Bitcoin using tort law, common law, and the “law of the car”Why (in Max's humble opinion) AI can never replace lawyersThe future of stablecoins, CBDCs, and why Amazon scares the U.S. TreasuryThe future of Bitcoin education in academia and beyond ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PubKey meetups are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Join us to ask live questions and enjoy a pint together. Good food, bad opinions, great company.🧡 NYC Meetups: ⁠https://luma.com/user/pubkey⁠🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011Follow us on X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/PubKey⁠