Live at PubKey NYC

COIN BASED is back at PubKey NYC. This time, we're digging into the Noah Doe lawsuit and how two parties are coming for the same dormant Bitcoin from opposite directions. Best part is, neither one has the keys. 3.8 million dormant BTC are at stake. You don't want to miss this. Follow Bitcoin Lawyer Guy: https://x.com/btclawyerguy ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cult...

Everyone is discoverable. But how does someone actually go from knowing your handle to knowing your address? Between data brokers, leaky apps, and a decade plus of KYC, the line between "online footprint" and "someone showing up at your door" is thinner than most people realize. Join Rob Wallace ( Bitcoin News ) and Alec Harris (CEO havenX ) for a real conversation about how Bi...

What was it like resisting Daniel Ortega's bloody dictatorship? We're streaming LIVE AT PUBKEY NYC right now with Félix Maradiaga (President of the World Liberty Congress ) and Jhanisse Vaca Daza ( HRF 's Freedom Fellowship Director) to explore Maradiaga's experience resisting Ortega, leading WLC, and how political dissidents and human rights activists around the world use Bitcoin...

The Coin Based boys ( ArbedOut , Drew Armstrong ) are back with the fine folks at Blockspace Media ( Charlie Spears , Will Foxley ) to help congratulate them on an excellent OP_NEXT 2026. Tune in and eavesdrop on all the things we couldn't say during the conference: What our most (and least) favorite panelists were The definitive take on whether Bitcoin mining is the stupidest business model i...

Legendary Bitcoin developer Calle (Cashu, Clawi) and host Alex Li (Bitcoin Development Lead at HRF ) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to discuss the future of open-source freedom tech. Plus: Calle's exact agentic coding stack to boost his productivity by 100x (no, actually) Calle's unique perspective on the Bitcoin quantum debate as an actual physics PhD How Calle...

We're stacking through the storm. Tune into our new segment with The Daily Stack for an evening of high-signal discourse, direct perspectives from leaders at Arch Lending, Bitcoin News, and CBIZ Crypto, and complimentary drinks to keep the conversation flowing. Connect with our panelists: Himanshu Sahay (Arch Lending) Rob Wallace (Bitcoin News) Steven Baum (CBIZ Crypto) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ W...

The Coin Based boys ( Thomas Pacchia & ArbedOut ) are back with special guest Jeff Park to discuss whether Jane Street was truly responsible for slumping the price of Bitcoin. The answer might surprise you. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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 event...

Bitcoin adoption without privacy erodes long-term sovereignty. Community growth without principled infrastructure leads to fragility. ⁠ Obi Nwosu (CEO of Fedi) takes the stage in his LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to explore how we scale grassroots Bitcoin communities... while preserving the principles that made the movement powerful in the first place. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Welcome home. PubKe...

Are YOU keeping up with Bitcoin? Will Foxley takes the stage in his LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to talk market changes, mining infrastructure, macro shocks, 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...

Is private AI still possible in a surveillance economy? Marks (CEO of MapleAI ) and Harrison Friedes (Freedom Tech Grants Lead at HRF ) take the stage in their LIVE AT PUBKEY show at PubKey NYC to discuss the future of end-to-end encrypted AI chat tools that ensure greater security and privacy when using large language models. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Welcome home. PubKey is a bar and cultural venue...

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 worl...

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...

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 codi...

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 ont...

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-11...

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 Prest...

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 fre...

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's The Crying of Lot 49 How Max Raskin wen...

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 transm...

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 pr...

Adam Back and ArbedOut take the stage at PubKey NYC with host Thomas Pacchia to discuss the brewing tensions between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots. Could we be heading toward a fork? Plus: How the OP_RETURN “flame war” revives a decade-old argument over spam, censorship, and Bitcoin’s purpose Why ArbedOut is choosing to steelman Bitcoin Knots and its alleged ability to filter "spam" tra...

In this collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation , Christian "CK" Keroles (Director of Financial Freedom at HRF) sits down with Matt Ahlborg (Bitcoin researcher and creator of PayPerQ ) for a fireside chat and open Q&A about: The emerging dilemma: why Bitcoin is the only way to access AI in countries blocked from traditional payment rails How PayPerQ lets anyone in the world (n...

Bitcoin OGs Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert take the stage at PubKey NYC for the wildest live show you've ever seen. They discuss: Why El Salvador reminds them of Renaissance Florence How their government-backed education program teaches financial literacy and node-building starting from age 7 Why they think Bitcoin has “New York energy” Why they think Bitcoin treasuries are “bullshit” How Stacy...

We got your proof-of-work right here. Join our friends Drew Armstrong and Will Foxley (co-founder of Blockspace Media ) to learn what it takes to survive in the zero-sum game of Bitcoin mining and secure the next precious block in the chain. They discuss: How mining numbers get gamed by curtailment and Texas grid strategy Why Tether is now one of the largest Bitcoin miners (and how a joint venture...

In this collaboration with the Human Rights Foundation , Femi Longe (Global Bitcoin Lead at HRF) sits down with Anaïse Kanimba for a fireside chat and open Q&A about: The FULL story of how Anaïse freed her father from Mageragere Prison Why speaking up about injustice got Anaïse targeted by Pegasus spyware and foreign intelligence What happens when human rights work gets you debanked (and how B...