The Pregame (NYC)

The Human Rights Foundation and PubKey are BACK to dive into how Freedom Tech and Bitcoin advance humanitarian goals. In this episode, we ask Keith Mukai (lead developer of SeedSigner): will open-source be enough to protect your bitcoin from AI? TIMESTAMPS:0:00 INTRO: Welcome back to PubKey! 0:57 What is SeedSigner? How does it help protect your Bitcoin? 5:42 How an open-source project and its volunteers came together 13:56 What’s inside: $50 of off-the-shelf parts 16:33 How buying the parts yourself keeps you off a kidnapper’s list 22:24 The fight to escape a single point of failure 28:13 How a no-name wallet protects activists under dictatorships 31:16 Is there a backdoor in your parts? Why hiding in the crowd wins 35:58 Can AI audit the code and keep your Bitcoin safe? (and why Coldcard failed) 39:51 CONCLUSION: What’s really at stake for the people who need it most ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 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.

Everyone is discoverable. But how does someone actually go from knowing your handle to knowing your address? To answer exactly that, Thomas Pacchia welcomes Alec Harris (CEO of havenX) to The Pregame. 0:00 INTRO: Meet Alec Harris, CEO of havenX! 4:00 Alec's Bitcoin origins story 5:29 Why havenX is in the privacy & reputation business 10:32 Can you guard your privacy and still have a normal life? 18:06 The case for Monero over ZCash 25:35 Do you need to choose between privacy and convenience? 30:24 How all your devices are already surveilled 34:34 OUTRO: A note of optimism ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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.

Donate to Thomas Massie's re-election campaign here: https://secure.thomasmassie.com/donateThomas Pacchia welcomes special guests Thomas Massie (U.S. Representative KY4) and Matt Kibbe to an exclusive edition of THE PREGAME. 0:00 INTRO: Welcome Thomas Massie & Matt Kibbe!0:51 The problem with CBDCs (and modern farming)6:01 Retvrn to tradition (bartering with the Amish)9:02 Bitcoin vs. stablecoins—what’s wrong with the Clarity Act?10:12 How Thomas Massie helped free Ross Ulbricht 13:59 “I trust the coins the government doesn’t like”: Beware of stablecoins16:10 Will the U.S. Dollar lose its reserve status?19:00 OUTRO: David vs. Goliath—Massie’s re-election campaign against Big Money▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬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.

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) ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬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.

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.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬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.

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.Est. 735075.

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.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬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.

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 politicsA 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 BitLicenseWhat it'll take to repeal the real final boss of Bitcoin: the Bank Secrecy Act...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/menuSometimes 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 protocolsWhy Human Rights Foundation launched the AI for Individual Rights programHow Goose emerged from Jack Dorsey's Block as an open-source, local AI agentThe core fear driving the AI conversation today and how agents like Goose assuage those fearsWhy “vibe coding” is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for individual liberties (yes, really)...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/menuSometimes 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 toolsHow 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 effectivenessHow swing states and Bitcoin meetups are becoming real levers of national policy influenceThe 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.comfreeiannow.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/menuSometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym.Est. 735075.