Live at PubKey NYC

PubKey Media House

Full audio recordings from our live events at PubKey NYC.

  1. JAN 25

    Ending New York's War on Bitcoin (w/ Frank Corva & Khurram Dara)

    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 AGHow New York’s BitLicense is driving business and tax revenue out of the financial capital of the worldHow (and why) state attorneys general can override federal policy and turn digital asset regulation into a state-level battlefieldWhy anti-Bitcoin politics is fueled more by fear, optics, and lobbying than by technical understandingHowTornado Cash, Samourai Wallet, and the Bank Secrecy Act raise important Fourth Amendment questions about punishing software builders...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/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

    54 min

  2. JAN 16

    COIN BASED: The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin (w/ Drew Armstrong & ArbedOut)

    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 problemThe 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) exposureThe 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 practiceWhether this entire quantum debate is perhaps even just a FUD psyop...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/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

    1h 28m

  3. 12/23/2025

    The Fight for Open-Source AI (w/ HRF & Alex Hancock)

    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 shiftWhy open-source is essential for dissident developers operating under authoritarian regimesThe 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 powerWhy the future for AI isn't yet determined and is still up for grabs...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/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

    1h 4m

  4. 12/16/2025

    SET THEM FREE: A Bitcoin & Civil Liberties Night (w/ The Mises Caucus)

    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/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

    33 min

  5. 12/15/2025

    The OP_RETURN Saga Continues (w/ ArbedOut)

    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 disputesThe 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 powerWhether filtering hostile data creates new choke points for governments, miners, and regulatorsThe uncomfortable idea that Bitcoin’s biggest threats may be social and political, not technical...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/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

    1h 6m

  6. 12/02/2025

    America v. BRITISH CENSORSHIP (w/ Preston Byrne)

    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/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

    43 min

  7. 11/17/2025

    Can the Bitcoin Development Fund Save Bitcoin? (w/ HRF & Femi Longe)

    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! ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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

    1h 6m

  8. 11/13/2025

    Does Academia Still Hate Bitcoin? (w/ Max Raskin & David Yermack)

    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 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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

    50 min
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Full audio recordings from our live events at PubKey NYC.

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  • Creator
    PubKey Media House
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    52
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © PubKey Media House
  • Show Website
    Live at PubKey NYC