Join us on Thursday, February 19th for Keeping up with Bitcoin! Bitcoin has entered a period of heightened volatility. With price drawdowns and shifting mining dynamics playing out across the network, market structure and operator behavior are adjusting in real time. If the past few weeks at PubKey are any signal... the questions are changing. Less “number go up” more “what actually matters right now?” The macro backdrop remains anything but stable. Liquidity conditions, policy uncertainty, and shifting market risk tolerance continue to shape financial markets -- influencing everything from institutional positioning to capital flows across digital assets. Join Blockspace Media cofounder Will Foxley on Thursday, February 19 for a fireside chat breaking down the most relevant signals across markets, mining, and macro. Not a conversation to be missed. Be sure to come out. This event is FREE and PUBLIC. 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

Keeping up with Bitcoin | PubKey NYC · Luma

Bitcoin has entered a period of heightened volatility. With price drawdowns and shifting mining dynamics playing out across the network, market str...

Join us on Wednesday, February 18th for @HRF x PubKey AI That Respects your Privacy w/ @Marks at PubKey NYC In this fireside chat, CEO of Maple AI Marks will share how artificial intelligence can be used more privately around the world with Maple AI. Maple AI is an end-to-end encrypted AI chat tool that uses open-source models to ensure greater security and privacy when using large language models (like ChatGPT - but privacy-protecting). Together with HRF’s Freedom Tech Grant Lead @Harrison Friedes, this conversation will explore how political dissidents and human rights defenders leverage tools like Maple in their work to resist authoritarian regimes. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how open source AI can support human rights, and participate in a live audience Q&A with the speakers! As always, this is a FREE and PUBLIC event. ​🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

HRF x PubKey: AI that Respects Your Privacy w/ Marks | PubKey NYC · Luma

Each month, the Human Rights Foundation and PubKey dive into how Freedom Tech and Bitcoin advance humanitarian goals. In this fireside chat, CEO of...

We have an electric one on deck next Wednesday at PubKey DC! THNDR LEVELS UP GAMING w/ Desiree Dickerson and @Bitcoin District Prospera 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

THNDR LEVELS UP GAMING INDUSTRY | PubKey DC · Luma

Join us for a conversation with Desiree Dickerson of THNDR Games, where she’s helping build a new kind of gaming experience powered by Bitcoin an...

We’re excited to host @Bitcoin District Prospera as they launch BitPlebs at PubKey DC on Monday, January 26th! 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

DC BitPlebs · Luma

Join us at Pubkey DC for the BitPlebs! DC BitPlebs are Socratic Seminars that do not require advanced and technical understanding of Bitcoin. The t...

Live at PubKey | @Frank Corva and Khurram Dara!

Join us Thursday, January 15th at 6pm for COIN BASED! We’ll be doing a year in review and talking shop on what’s next for Bitcoin. 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

COIN BASED | PubKey NYC · Luma

Get ready for COIN BASED at PubKey NYC! We're diving into everything happening in Bitcoin right now — from the latest developments shaking up the...

One day they’ll get it right. “Bitcoin not Crypto”

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Crypto bar provides a new way to lobby D.C.

CNBC’s Emily Wilkins reports on PubKey, a crypto bar in Washington, D.C.

Bitcoin and Dive Bars: The Pillars of Civilization | Guest: Thomas Pacchia @tpacchia | Ep 365 of Kibbe on Liberty | Free the People One of the most precious things COVID lockdowns took from us was the ability to gather, to socialize, and of course to drink together. Matt Kibbe sits down for a beer with Thomas Pacchia, the founder and CEO of PubKey, a Bitcoin-friendly establishment with locations in New York and Washington, D.C. Pacchia explains the importance of Bitcoin, not as part of an investment portfolio, but as a medium of exchange protected from the government’s manipulation of the money supply. His bars aim to offer a low barrier to entry for new and inexperienced Bitcoin users to start treating the technology as an actual currency, while at the same time encouraging community and friendship among like-minded individuals. 🧡🍻🙏 Watch the interview here:

We already had to inform someone that we do not accept ethereum as payment at PubKey DC.

The next Chapter at PubKey begins today! D.C. we’re here for you. Open til 2am! 🧡🍻🙏

Join us at PubKey DC on Wednesday, December 17th at 7pm for BITCOIN BREWING IN WASHINGTON: What Bitcoin Means for DC Businesses Our featured guests are Michael Haft and Andrew Newman. Micheal is the CEO and Founder of Compass Coffee, which pioneered Bitcoin payments with Square across its DC cafés. Andrew is a Co-Founder & CFO of Pubkey, the Bitcoin themed bar and cultural hub in NYC with a new location in DC. The talk will be moderated by Seong-Kwan Hong, a seasoned financial executive, former partner at a global consulting firm, and member of Bitcoin District Initiative. They’ll discuss the practical realities of accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment, how Compass Coffee teamed up with Square to be the first business to roll out Bitcoin payments across their cafés, Pubkey’s experience in NYC with Bitcoin and their plans for DC, and what business owners should know as interest grows across the District. We’ll also examine challenges unique to DC such as government shutdowns, shifting commuter patterns, and the long-term impact of remote work, and how a monetary asset like Bitcoin can be used as a long term store of value that can give small businesses tools to weather downturns or grow their operation. The conversation will also look ahead: where DC stands in the broader Bitcoin adoption cycle, what it means to develop a Bitcoin circular economy in the Nation’s Capital, and how residents, businesses, and local communities can all play a role in building it from the ground up. 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP: https://luma.com/jmwigsmv

Join us on Tuesday, December 16th for @HRF x PubKey: How Open Source AI Supports Freedom In this fireside chat, Senior Software Engineer at Block Alex Hancock will discuss his work developing open source AI, and how it can help ensure freedom around the world. Alex is a core contributor to Block’s open-source AI Goose. Goose is an open source AI that runs locally, operates transparently, and empowers individuals to contribute, customize, and innovate freely. In this conversation between Alex and HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Program Associate @Harrison Friedes, the two will discuss how open-source AI agents such as Goose can help political dissidents and human rights defenders around the world. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how open source AI can support human rights, and participate in a live audience Q&A with the speakers! 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

HRF x PubKey: How Open Source AI Supports Freedom | Pubkey NYC · Luma

Each month, the Human Rights Foundation and PubKey dive into how Freedom Tech and Bitcoin advance humanitarian goals. In this fireside chat, Senior...

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Join us on Thursday, December 11th at PubKey NYC at 7pm for Set Them Free a Bitcoin & Civil Liberties Night! Celebrate the long-awaited freedom of Ross Ulbricht. Learn about the critical cases targeting Samourai Wallet and Tornado Cash developers. Understand why privacy, open-source code, and financial freedom are under attack. Connect with advocates, builders, organizers, and allies. Take action to help protect the future of Bitcoin and privacy technology. 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

Set Them Free A Bitcoin & Civil Liberties Night at PubKey NYC · Luma

You’re invited to Set Them Free, an evening dedicated to Bitcoin and civil liberties: Celebrate the long-awaited freedom of Ross Ulbricht Learn a...

PUBKEY NYC TO PUBLEY DC LIVE STREAM 🚆 🚆🚆 We’re rolling from NYC → DC to stream the chaos, raise funds for Project K9 Hero, and drink a pint from their new spot. LETS GOOOOO 🧡🍻🙏 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqxolmaMjNKv?t=jre7Ih1gh-N9ABLuGmH7aA&s=09

Join us this Thursday, November 6 at 6pm for Bitcoin in the Classroom: Finance and Law at PubKey w/ Max Raskin & David Yermack. Join Professor David Yermack (NYU Stern) and Max Raskin (NYU Law) for a candid fireside chat on how academia is grappling with Bitcoin — what gets taught, what gets missed, and why it matters for builders, miners, and markets. We’ll dig into curriculum design, regulation, market structure, and where research is heading next. 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

Bitcoin in the Classroom: Finance and Law at PubKey w/ Max Raskin & David Yermack · Luma

Join Professor David Yermack (NYU Stern) and Max Raskin (NYU Law) for a candid fireside chat on how academia is grappling with Bitcoin — what get...

Join us on Thursday, November 13th at 6pm for Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin w/ @Erik Cason ! Erik first started dabbling in bitcoin in 2012. Over the next 4 years he helped get bitcoin in the hands of as many people as possible while working at Coinbase. Then he focused on writing essays on the social, political, and philosophical aspects of bitcoin which are now collected in his book Cryptosovereignty. Today he is the co-founder of Vora.io which is building the first plug and play self-sovereign AI hardware to help protect your digital life. 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin · Luma

Erik Cason will discuss the hidden philosophical nature of bitcoin and the profound implications Bitcoin has for society, politics and our understa...

Join us on Tuesday, November 11th at 6pm for @HRF x PubKey Getting Freedom Tech Where It's Needed w/ @ck and @npub18yr2...8czq! In this fireside chat, HRF’s Director of Financial Freedom CK will discuss supporting Bitcoin, Nostr, ecash, and other freedom technology with HRF’s Global Bitcoin Lead, Femi Longe. The two will discuss the Human Rights Foundation’s Bitcoin Development Fund, which has granted millions of dollars to freedom tech developers, human rights defenders and activists, educators and more, for the purposes of making freedom tech more powerful for dissidents to use. While freedom tech may be considered optional for those living in a democracy with a global reserve currency, it is vital to the freedom of billions living under authoritarian regimes. 🧡🍻🙏 RSVP:

HRF x PubKey: Getting Freedom Tech Where It's Needed w/ CK and Femi Longe · Luma

Each month, the Human Rights Foundation and PubKey dive into how Freedom Tech and Bitcoin advance humanitarian goals. In this fireside chat, HRF’...