The Pregame (NYC)

Your Privacy Is 10x Worse Than You Think (w/ Alec Harris)

Everyone is discoverable. But how does someone actually go from knowing your handle to knowing your address? To answer exactly that, Thomas Pacchia [https://x.com/tpacchia] welcomes Alec Harris (CEO of havenX [https://x.com/the_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 [https://luma.com/user/pubkey] 🍔 Check out our food menu (yes, we discount 21% if you pay in BTC!): https://pubkey.bar/menu [https://pubkey.bar/menu] Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

THOMAS MASSIE: The Collapse of the American Dollar (w/ Matt Kibbe)

Donate to Thomas Massie's re-election campaign here: https://secure.thomasmassie.com/donate [https://secure.thomasmassie.com/donate] Thomas Pacchia [https://x.com/tpacchia] welcomes special guests Thomas Massie [https://x.com/RepThomasMassie] (U.S. Representative KY4) and Matt Kibbe [https://x.com/MattKibbe] 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/menu Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

How Smart Money Actually Trades Bitcoin (w/ Jeff Park)

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 [https://x.com/dgt10011] (CIO at ProCap Financial) and Thomas Pacchia [https://x.com/tpacchia] 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 [https://luma.com/user/pubkey] 🍔 Check out our food menu (yes, we discount 21% if you pay in BTC!): https://pubkey.bar/menu [https://pubkey.bar/menu] Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

Privacy Is the Only Defense Against Power (w/ Obi Nwosu)

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 [https://x.com/obi] (CEO of Fedi) and Thomas Pacchia [https://x.com/tpacchia] 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 [https://luma.com/user/pubkey] 🍔 Check out our food menu (yes, we discount 21% if you pay in BTC!): https://pubkey.bar/menu [https://pubkey.bar/menu] Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your nym. Est. 735075.

Why the 100x Engineer Isn't Dead (w/ Spiral & Presidio Bitcoin)

As AI accelerates, has developing and shipping in-person become even more important? We're joined by the good folks at Spiral [https://x.com/spiralbtc]—with a year of experience running the IRL community of Presidio Bitcoin [https://www.youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin]—to answer that question. Welcome to THE PREGAME. We got Steve Lee [https://x.com/moneyball], Haley Berkoe [https://x.com/HBerkoe], and Mat Balez [https://x.com/matbalez] 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.