PubKey X Spaces Above the Bar

About PubKey X Spaces Above the Bar

Good drinks, bad opinions, great company. This show is where guests make their pilgrimage to PubKey NYC (85 Washington Pl), where they warm up in our VIP-only Parlor before their Live at PubKey show. This is THE PREGAME.

Publisher

PubKey Media House

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Dec 2023

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

52 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   How Open-Source Protects Your Bitcoin from AI (w/ HRF & Keith Mukai)

   The Human Rights Foundation (https://x.com/HRF) and PubKey are BACK to dive into how Freedom Tech and Bitcoin advance humanitarian goals. In this episode, we ask Keith Mukai (https://x.com/KeithMukai) (lead developer of SeedSigner (https://x.com/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.

2. 

   28 May 2026

   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.

3. 

   6 May 2026

   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.

Who has been a guest on PubKey X Spaces Above the Bar

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• Alex Leishman
• Peter McCormack
• Conor McCormack
• Antoine Poinsot
• ArbedOut

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YouTube views

113,908

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

37

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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