Frank Corva takes the stage in his LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to interview Khurram Dara, the ​New York Attorney General Nominee pledging to end the lawfare against the Bitcoin industry in New York State. Plus:

• Khurram's journey from Coinbase and Bain Capital to running for New York AG
• How New York’s BitLicense is driving business and tax revenue out of the financial capital of the world
• How (and why) state attorneys general can override federal policy and turn digital asset regulation into a state-level battlefield
• Why anti-Bitcoin politics is fueled more by fear, optics, and lobbying than by technical understanding
• HowTornado Cash, Samourai Wallet, and the Bank Secrecy Act raise important Fourth Amendment questions about punishing software builders
• ...and more!

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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/menu

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym.

Est. 735075.

The Coin Based boys (Drew Armstrong & ArbedOut) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to discuss the quantum threat to Bitcoin:

• Why the quantum threat is a real Bitcoin engineering problem
• The simplest usable mental model of classical bits vs. qubits (and how private keys could be theoretically derived from exposed public keys)
• Which Bitcoin address/script types are most exposed, why old P2PK outputs are “low-hanging fruit,” and how newer types reduce (but don’t eliminate) exposure
• The messy debate over what to do about vulnerable old coins... burn them? Throttle them? Or do nothing and accept the risk?
• The risk of picking the wrong “quantum-safe” scheme too early and why post-quantum migration is difficult in practice
• Whether this entire quantum debate is perhaps even just a FUD psyop
• ...and more!

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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/menu

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym.

Est. 735075.

Harrison Friedes (AI for Individual Rights Program Associate at ⁠HRF⁠) and ⁠Alex Hancock⁠ (senior software engineer at Block) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to discuss the importance of open-source AI and Alex's contributions to Goose (Block's open-source AI that runs locally and operates transparently). Plus:

• The emergence of open-source AI agents and vibe coding as a once-in-a-generation shift
• Why open-source is essential for dissident developers operating under authoritarian regimes
• The tradeoffs between open and closed AI ecosystems (and the risk of centralizing core infrastructure inside profit-driven corporations)
• Why AI agents are a leveling force that amplifies individual power more than state power
• Why the future for AI isn't yet determined and is still up for grabs
• ...and more!

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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/menu

Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym.

Est. 735075.

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 developers
• How to use ballot access and convention optics to force Bitcoin pardons onto the national campaign agenda
• Why the Ross Ulbricht, Roman Storm, and Keonne Rodruiguez cases should be treated as a unified front in the fight against financial surveillance and de-banking
• How financial privacy prosecutions are a precursor to social credit systems, enforced conformity, and state-managed behavior
• What 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.org
• freeiannow.org
• billandkeonne.org

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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/menu

Sometimes 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 disputes
• The 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 power
• Whether filtering hostile data creates new choke points for governments, miners, and regulators
• The uncomfortable idea that Bitcoin’s biggest threats may be social and political, not technical
• ...and more!

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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/menu

Sometimes 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 Kingdom
• The danger of a future where foreign regulators and domestic convenience culture erode anonymity, encryption, and online free expression
• Why 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 cases
• The blueprint for restoring global free speech and exporting First Amendment free speech principles abroad
• ...and more!

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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/menu

Sometimes 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!

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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 10011

Follow 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 cryptocurrency

• How you can get orangep-pilled from Pynchon'sThe Crying of Lot 49

• How Max Raskin went from Austrian economics nerd to early crypto reporter

• What Michelle Obama’s fashion choices and CEO private jets taught Professor Yermack about markets

• Inside the faculty wars: how Bitcoin went from fringe topic to NYU curriculum

• A first-hand look at why most economists still dismiss Bitcoin

• How 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 lawyers

• The future of stablecoins, CBDCs, and why Amazon scares the U.S. Treasury

• The future of Bitcoin education in academia and beyond

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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 10011

Follow us on X: ⁠⁠https://x.com/PubKey⁠

Frank Corva and David Z. Morris (journalist at The Rage) take the stage at PubKey NYC to discuss the results of the Samourai Wallet trial—and what it means for the future of our industry. Plus:

• What Frank and David really witnessed inside the courtroom during the Samourai Wallet sentencing (i.e. why did the judge hand down the MAXIMUM sentence?)

• The legal gray zone around “unlicensed money transmission” and why it threatens open-source developers
• How tone and rhetoric shaped the case (i.e. at what point does "encouraging privacy" become an empty promise?)
• What this verdict means for future privacy tools like CoinJoin and PayJoin

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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 10011

Follow 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 impossible

• The surprising real-world use cases emerging on Nostr: raw milk markets, uncensorable Reddit clones, and permanent Adblock

• How the Chinese government instantly banned Damus after 25,000 downloads in 48 hours

• Why vibe coding is radically lowering the barrier to entry for building decentralized apps

• What 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)

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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 10011

Follow us on X: ⁠https://x.com/PubKey⁠