Was Jane Street actually manipulating the Bitcoin price? Or are they just playing a more sophisticated game than what meets the eye? Welcome to The Pregame. In preparation for their Live at PubKey show downstairs, ⁠Jeff Park (CIO at ProCap Financial) and Thomas Pacchia grab a cold one in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an unfiltered conversation about:

0:00 Intro: What's Jeff's favorite Pokémon?

5:47 What really happened with Jane Street?

15:53 The Do Kwon fallout & the Korean-crypto connection

22:14 The best buy signal for Bitcoin (hint: you're currently seeing it)

25:53 Jeff's 3 theses on the global intelligence crisis (and how to prepare for the coming wealth transfer)

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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.

What can be done about the surveillance state and the ever-increasing power of centralized platforms? In preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, ⁠Obi Nwosu (CEO of Fedi) and Thomas Pacchia grab a cold one in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an unfiltered conversation about the need for PRIVACY-FIRST communities... and how Bitcoin can scale them.

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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.

As AI accelerates, has developing and shipping in-person become even more important? We're joined by the good folks at Spiral—with a year of experience running the IRL community of Presidio Bitcoin—to answer that question. Welcome to THE PREGAME. We got Steve Lee, Haley Berkoe, and Mat Balez to grab a cold one with in the PubKey NYC Parlor just before their ₿uilder NYC event downstairs. ₿uilder is a monthly gathering for people who like to vibecode, build, and ship. This event series launched last year in San Francisco and has since spread to Miami, Austin, Vancouver, and Atlanta...and NYC is up next. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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.

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What's the next for the future of AI... or is it all just hype? In preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Marks⁠ (CEO of ⁠MapleAI⁠) and ⁠Harrison Friedes⁠ (Freedom Tech Grants Lead at ⁠HRF⁠) grab a cold one with host ⁠Frank Corva in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about the future of AI, how activists can safely use AI in authoritarian countries, and what it all means for Bitcoin.

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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.

In preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, ⁠Frank Corva and Khurram Dara grab a cold one with host ⁠Thomas Pacchia in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about:

• Why swapping out New York’s AG would change the state’s crypto business climate “overnight”
• How Khurram's career path runs straight through capital markets, early Ethereum DeFi, Coinbase’s SEC fight, Bain Capital Crypto, and now politics
• A deep dive into the BitLicense and why it's a monopoly machine (duplicative licensing, opaque process, millions in compliance drag...)
• How a new AG could weaken or kill the BitLicense
• What it'll take to repeal the real final boss of Bitcoin: the Bank Secrecy Act
• ...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.

In preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Harrison Friedes (AI for Individual Rights Program Associate at HRF) and Alex Hancock (senior software engineer at Block) grab a cold one with host ⁠Thomas Pacchia in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about:

• The expansion of Human Rights Foundation’s freedom tech mission beyond Bitcoin into AI and open protocols
• Why Human Rights Foundation launched the AI for Individual Rights program
• How Goose emerged from Jack Dorsey's Block as an open-source, local AI agent
• The core fear driving the AI conversation today and how agents like Goose assuage those fears
• Why “vibe coding” is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for individual liberties (yes, really)
• ...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.

In preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, ⁠Angela McArdle (chair of the Mises Caucus) and Amber Harris (executive director of the Mises Caucus) grab a cold one with host ⁠Thomas Pacchia in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about:

• The takeaway from Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet: the government is escalating war on Bitcoin privacy tools
• How Angela led the charge on freeing Ross Ulbricht (and what she said to President Trump to persuade him)
• Angela's advice for Bitcoiners to achieve maximal political effectiveness
• How swing states and Bitcoin meetups are becoming real levers of national policy influence
• The risk of Bitcoin being captured by institutions... and what YOU can do about it
• ...and more!

SIGN THE PETITIONS to advocate justice for open-source developers:

• freeromanstorm.com
• 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.

In preparation for his LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, ⁠Preston Byrne (Managing Partner at Byrne & Storm) grabs a cold one with host ⁠Thomas Pacchia in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about:

• Preston's fight against the U.K.’s Online Safety Act, a global censorship weapon aimed at Americans who never set foot in Britain
• Why Preston stepped in alone to defend Gab, Kiwi Farms, 4chan, and others when every big law firm refused
• The UK’s thirty-year slide into criminalizing tweets (and why it’s the cautionary tale for every Western democracy)
• How anonymous and pseudonymous speech became a constitutional battleground in the age of surveillance and digital ID
• ...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.

In preparation for his LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, ⁠Erik Cason (author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin) grabs a cold one with host ⁠Thomas Pacchia in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about:

• How Bitcoin introduced a new form of political power that will reshape the structure of nation-states

• Why fiat’s century-long decay (from greenbacks to 1971 to the GFC) created today’s nihilism, instability, and rising extremism

• What Bitcoiners get WRONG about central bankers, Cantillon dynamics, and the moral psychology behind money printing

• The coming clash between custodial Bitcoin (ETFs, treasuries) and self-sovereign Bitcoin

• Why AI and proprietary language models are becoming the new battleground for human autonomy

• How generational resentment, collapsing institutions, and political polarization could push America toward a Weimar-style fork

• Why REAL self-sovereignty demands new hardware, new UX, and a cultural shift toward running your own stack

• Whether Bitcoiners must eventually organize politically to avoid both authoritarian capture and extremist backlash

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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.

In preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Frank Corva and David Z. Morris (journalist at The Rage) crack open a few cold ones with host Thomas Pacchia and pregame in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they let loose for an UNFILTERED conversation about the Samourai Wallet trial verdict:

• Why the DOJ dropped money-laundering charges against the devs but still pushed for a max sentence under “unlicensed money transmission”
• How Keonne Rodriguez's handwritten letter advocating for his innocence actually... backfired?
• The bipartisan war on privacy tech and why lip-service support from Washington D.C. doesn't protect developers
• How Samurai’s own rhetoric (i.e. marketing to hackers and oligarchs) became the prosecution’s strongest evidence
• And what this all means for open-source builders: decentralize early, lawyer up, watch your language (even in group chats you think are "encrypted" and "private"), 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