Live at PubKey NYC

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.

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.

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

Zac Guignard (Financial Freedom Content Associate at HRF) and Will Casarin (founder of Damus) take the stage at PubKey NYC with host Frank Corva to discuss the new generation of Nostr-native platforms allowing users to speak and transact freely without censorship. Are we finally in a new era for the Internet? Plus:Why centralized social platforms strip users of autonomy (and how Nostr’s open protocol restores it by design)How Damus lets users broadcast to 100+ relays simultaneously, making deplatforming nearly impossibleThe surprising real-world use cases emerging on Nostr: raw milk markets, uncensorable Reddit clones, and permanent AdblockHow the Chinese government instantly banned Damus after 25,000 downloads in 48 hoursWhy vibe coding is radically lowering the barrier to entry for building decentralized appsWhat it means for a platform to go viral without an algorithm and how that changes incentives toward real value (and not ragebait!)What the future looks like if apps are created through voice prompts, monetized with Lightning, and deployed (without devs knowing a single line of JavaScript)▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PubKey meetups are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 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

In this collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation, Christian "CK" Keroles (Director of Financial Freedom at HRF) sits down with Matt Ahlborg (Bitcoin researcher and creator of PayPerQ) for a fireside chat and open Q&A about:The emerging dilemma: why Bitcoin is the only way to access AI in countries blocked from traditional payment railsHow PayPerQ lets anyone in the world (no credit card, no ID) pay for GPT-4 or Claude 3 via LightningWhat Matt learned from investigating LocalBitcoins and working at Bitrefill during the global P2P boomWhy privacy-preserving interfaces for AI will matter more than ever as models become more personalHow AI startups that rely on Stripe functionally limit access to only ~20 countries (and how Matt thinks we can fix this)The long-term vision: a decentralized developer economy built on Bitcoin micropayments and API agents!▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PubKey meetups are FREE and PUBLIC. Join us to ask live questions, engage with experts, and enjoy a pint together:🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011🧡 https://www.meetup.com/pubkey-meetups/events/🧡 https://luma.com/user/pubkeyFollow us on X: ⁠https://x.com/PubKey⁠

We got your proof-of-work right here. Join our friends Drew Armstrong and Will Foxley (co-founder of Blockspace Media) to learn what it takes to survive in the zero-sum game of Bitcoin mining and secure the next precious block in the chain. They discuss:How mining numbers get gamed by curtailment and Texas grid strategyWhy Tether is now one of the largest Bitcoin miners (and how a joint venture with Swan blew up in UK court)Whether U.S. regulators will crack down on Bitmain and Congo’s mining footprint over national security fearsHow AISC manufacturers capture more value than minersThe growing friction between Bitcoin Core devs and mempool policy (yes, we're talking about the ordinal censorship debate)Whether Marathon’s Slipstream model is smart opportunism... or a subtle form of transaction censorship▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬PubKey meetups are FREE and PUBLIC. Join us to ask live questions, engage with experts, and enjoy a pint together:🗽 PubKey NYC🗽 85 Washington Place🗽 New York, NY 10011https://www.meetup.com/pubkey-meetups/events/Follow us on X: ⁠https://x.com/PubKey⁠