Drew Armstrong sits down with Will Foxley and ArbedOut for a wide-ranging fireside chat about:

• What’s actually needed to activate a soft fork — and why we probably aren’t close

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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/

Frank Corva⁠ (political correspondent at ⁠Bitcoin Magazine⁠) sits down with ⁠John Dennehy⁠ (founder of ⁠My First Bitcoin⁠) for a wide-ranging fireside chat about:

• The moment John realized he wasn’t free... and how that set him on a collision course with state power

• Why every other Bitcoin education initiative in El Salvador failed, and how his survived without funding or permission

• How a noisy classroom of Salvadoran teenagers changed the mission for good

• The quiet war over curriculum (and what happened when the Ministry of Education tried to shut him down)

• Why teaching kids might be the best way to reach the adults

• The radical plan to bring Bitcoin literacy to every U.S. prison inmate

• How John’s open-source model is spreading to 39 countries and how the Bitcoin community can help

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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/

Recorded on March 31st, 2025 at PubKey NYC.

Trace Mayer makes his first visit to PubKey NYC for a fireside chat with Drew Armstrong. They discuss Trace's perspectives on how the Bitcoin space has changed over the last decade and a half, and what the future may look like in another 16 years—and beyond.

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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

Recorded on March 19th, 2025 at PubKey NYC.

Join us for a live AMA with Max Kei (CEO Debifi), Adam Back (CEO Blockstream), and Sean Bill (CIO Blockstream).

Debifi is building bitcoin-backed lending with their "Never sell. Borrow." mindset—helping you access liquidity without letting go of your sats.

Blockstream is building the backbone of a bitcoin-powered future, from the Liquid Network to Lightning and beyond.

Recorded on February 26th, 2025 at PubKey NYC.

Lawrence Lepard is a professional investor and author of The Big Print: What Happened To America And How Sound Money Will Fix It. He joins us to break down the hidden forces driving economic instability and explain why sound money is the key to restoring financial freedom. Don’t miss this chance to engage in a thought-provoking discussion on the future of money and markets.

Recorded on February 25th, 2025 at PubKey NYC.

Bitcoin mining is changing the way the world produces and uses electricity. Once considered a wasteful expenditure of compute power, it is rapidly becoming a transformational force in rural, remote areas with untapped renewable energy sources.

Join PubKey's Thomas Pacchia, the inimitable Drew Armstrong of Cathedra, and this month's special guest Erik Hersman of Gridless as they discuss this topic, and much more.

It's Just an Electronic Transaction:
Bitcoin as a Medium of Exchange

​Breez and 1A1z present their upcoming report on bitcoin as a medium of exchange. Danny Stagg (Breez) and Dan O'Prey (1A1z) will be joined by Umi Miyahara (Breez) to discuss why Bitcoin is more than "just" digital gold and why the time has arrived for bitcoin payments. They'll be sharing the stories of apps and merchants leading the growing trend around the world.

Recorded January 30, 2025

It's our first Coin Based since the 2024 presidential election, and my…how things have changed.

Ideas that only a few weeks ago were laughed at by pundits and commentators are now on the table, with Cynthia Lummis leading the charge right out of the gate with her November 6th xweet:

WE ARE GOING TO BUILD A STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

So, we ask: How does this actually happen? How will the government acquire, HODL and use bitcoin? What's the strategy for the strategic reserve? What concepts of a plan does the second Trump administration have for long-term adoption?

Join us as Arbedout, Thomas, Drew and special guests David Zell and Shinobi ruminate on these topics, and answer your questions as best they can.

Troy Cross, a professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Reed College. Troy has been involved in bitcoin for over a decade, with a focus on the study of the present and future environmental impact of bitcoin mining. Troy is a fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, co-founder of The Nakamoto Project, and serves as Advisory Board Member to several companies in the bitcoin mining, data center, and the renewable energy industries. #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #bitcoinnews

Pete Rizzo & Thomas Pacchia talk shop at Pubkey.

Pete Rizzo — The Bitcoin Historian

Editor at Bitcoin Magazine
Editor-at-Large at Kraken
Contributor at Forbes