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Full audio recordings from our live events at PubKey DC.

  1. Aug 3

    How America Wins the AI Race (FULL PANEL w/ American Bitcoin)

    AI needs massive energy. America has spent 50 years making it difficult to make it. That all changes today—and the outcome of the AI race will hang in the balance. We've teamed up with American Bitcoin for deep dives into Bitcoin infrastructure, energy, and the future of compute in America, and this series will alternate between our NYC and DC locations. Our second panel "Driving American Energy Dominance" features Drew Armstrong (Head of Strategic Initiatives, Cipher) and Marty Bent (Managing Partner, Ten31). In this tavern chat, they'll sit down with host Matt Prusak (President, American Bitcoin) to discuss: 0:00 INTRO: Driving American Energy Dominance 0:43 Welcome Drew Armstrong and Marty Bent to PubKey DC! 2:55 Why Texas welcomes data centers while New York blocks them 7:37 Can't plug into the grid? Build your own power plant (like Elon did) 11:38 Making the power is easy... moving it across the country is the hard part 15:10 Data centers are job creators. Electricians are getting poached with 20% raises! 20:00 China builds power faster than anyone. Can Texas still win? 25:38 Are we really running out of energy? (the market says no) 29:46 Power, chips, or money: what's really holding AI back? 35:52 What AI data centers can learn from Bitcoin miners' mistakes 42:57 After AI comes robots... and they'll need even more power 46:04 CONCLUSION: Could we put data centers in space? (why we need data centers here on Earth) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cultural venue located in New York City and Washington DC. (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 DC🇺🇸 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.

  2. Aug 3

    Why America Needs Data Centers (FULL PANEL w/ American Bitcoin)

    Data centers are speedrunning the anti-energy, anti-growth talking points that Bitcoin miners have been hearing for years. So we've teamed up with American Bitcoin for deep dives into Bitcoin infrastructure, energy, and the future of compute in America, and this series will alternate between our NYC and DC locations. Our inaugural episode "Strong Grids, Stronger America" features Matt Prusak (President, American Bitcoin) and Grant McCarty (Executive Director, Bitcoin Policy Institute). In this tavern chat, they'll sit down with host Thomas Pacchia to discuss: 0:00 INTRO: Our new series with American Bitcoin 0:45 Welcome Matt Prusak and Grant McCarty to PubKey DC! 3:01 How Bitcoin miners became the boogeyman (and AI data centers are next) 5:51 "Speed to power": what Bitcoin miners bring to the table 7:20 Learning to be a good neighbor (noise, water & the farmland myth) 9:20 When governments overreact: the Texas cap & the New York data center moratorium 11:35 The foreign influence playbook (who's funding the backlash?) 13:15 Why smart people fall for scary energy stats 16:58 What's actually at stake: Bitcoin mining vs. AI 18:16 CONCLUSION: How to win a community over Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cultural venue located in New York City and Washington DC. (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 DC 🇺🇸 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.

  3. Jul 9

    PROOF OF HEALTH: Bitcoin-Backed Healthcare (w/ Stu Lackey & Dr. Christian Smith)

    ​What if your money and your health ran on the same principles: sound, sovereign, and fully in your control? Tonight, sound money meets sound health.Stu Lackey is the co-founder and CEO of SOUND HSA, the first bitcoin-native health savings accounts. He'll sit down with Dr. Christian Smith of Premier Direct Primary Care for a conversation about taking back control of how you save for and access your care. ​We'll get into:0:00 INTRO: Meet Stuart Lackey & Dr. Christian Smith 0:56 Dr. Smith's origin story: from Army medicine to Bitcoin 3:29 Stu's story: from the operating room to building SOUND HSA 5:56 The problem: why a couple needs $350K just for healthcare 7:12 The most powerful account you're not using (how the HSA works) 10:25 Why you hold Bitcoin, not cash (the shoulder-surgery math) 13:23 Inside SOUND HSA: the first Bitcoin-native HSA 16:34 What is direct primary care? (and the lost art of the house call) 19:30 Why your 7-minute doctor's visit is broken 23:38 The seed oil story: how we got nutrition wrong 28:54 Do you actually want to live to 100? 31:17 What direct primary care actually costs 33:40 Q&A: how to find a DPC doctor & where to learn Bitcoin 39:15 Q&A: can you open an HSA on your own? 44:35 OUTRO: Sound money meets sound health ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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 Pl 🗽 New York, NY 10011 🇺🇸 PubKey DC 🇺🇸 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.

  4. Jun 25

    Why AI Chooses Bitcoin (w/ Bitcoin Policy Institute)

    ​AI agents are beginning to browse, buy, negotiate, and transact on their own. But as commerce becomes increasingly automated, what kind of money will these agents choose?Join BPI LIVE at PubKey DC for Agentic Commerce 101: Why AI Chooses Bitcoin, a conversation on the intersection of artificial intelligence, payments, and Bitcoin. We're joined by special guest Five Bells, a digital asset company building on the frontier of agentic finance.We’ll explore how autonomous agents are already changing digital commerce, why programmable money matters, and what Bitcoin’s role could be in an economy increasingly shaped by machine-to-machine transactions. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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 Pl 🗽 New York, NY 10011 🇺🇸 PubKey DC 🇺🇸 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.

  5. Jun 16

    MAX & STACY vs. THE FIAT MINDSET

    ​Before the UFC turns the White House South Lawn into an octagon on June 14, the real title fight is going down at PubKey. Fighting out of the orange corner, weighing in at 21 million and never inflating: Bitcoin. Fighting out of the green corner, the opponent we've all been conditioned to accept: the fiat mindset. Welcome Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert back to PubKey. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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 Pl 🗽 New York, NY 10011 🇺🇸 PubKey DC 🇺🇸 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.

  6. Jun 9

    STRATEGY: Inside the World's Biggest BTC Treasury Company (w/ CJ & Ella Hough)

    ​Strategy holds more bitcoin than any other public company on Earth. And we're live with two people living inside that story: CJ (Chaitanya Jain), Strategy's Head of Investor Relations, and Ella Hough, who leads Bitcoin advocacy at the company. ​Moderated by John Balkam, CMO of Sovreign, the discussion goes behind the headlines into what it's actually like to execute the Bitcoin Treasury playbook in real time. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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 Pl🗽 New York, NY 10011 🇺🇸 PubKey DC 🇺🇸 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.

  7. May 14

    The Data Center Debate (w/ Bitcoin Policy Institute)

    Data centers are quickly becoming the backbone of the modern economy. Can it build the energy and infrastructure needed to support continued innovation… or will policy constraints slow progress? We're joined by Christian Britschgi (reporter at Reason Magazine) and Mark Moran (U.S. Senate candidate in Virginia) for a debate moderated by Sam Raus (David Boaz Resident Writing Fellow at Young Voices) for an evening of discussion and debate on the future of data centers, energy policy, and economic growth. With support from the Bitcoin Policy Institute, Young Voices, and the American Conservation Coalition. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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

  8. Apr 20

    Vibe Coding & OpenClaw (w/ Bitcoin District Initiative)

    We're building with OpenClaw, and you're invited. Come hang out, ask questions, and see what others are building! Bring your laptop to PubKey D.C. and jump into a night that feels part LAN party and part live build session, where people test ideas and show what their agents can actually do.Follow BDI: https://x.com/BTCDistrict▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬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.

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Full audio recordings from our live events at PubKey DC.

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  • Creator
    Pubkey Media House
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Pubkey Media House
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    Live at PubKey DC