The Pregame (NYC)
by PubKey Media House
Latest episode
How Open-Source Protects Your Bitcoin from AI (w/ HRF & Keith Mukai)
How Open-Source Protects Your Bitcoin from AI (w/ HRF & Keith Mukai)
About this podcast
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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 52 episodes
- How Open-Source Protects Your Bitcoin from AI (w/ HRF & Keith Mukai) · 42 minThe 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…
- Your Privacy Is 10x Worse Than You Think (w/ Alec Harris) · 35 minEveryone 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…
- THOMAS MASSIE: The Collapse of the American Dollar (w/ Matt Kibbe) · 22 minDonate to Thomas Massie's re-election campaign here: https://secure.thomasmassie.com/donate Thomas Pacchia welcomes special guests Thomas Massie (U.S. Representative KY4) and…
- How Smart Money Actually Trades Bitcoin (w/ Jeff Park) · 35 minWas 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…
- Privacy Is the Only Defense Against Power (w/ Obi Nwosu) · 39 minWhat 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…
- Why the 100x Engineer Isn't Dead (w/ Spiral & Presidio Bitcoin) · 33 minAs 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…
- Your AI Agent Will Want Bitcoin (w/ HRF & Marks) · 55 minWhat'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…
- Can a New Attorney General Save Bitcoin? (w/ Frank Corva & Khurram Dara) · 47 minIn 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…
- Why AI Must Be Open-Source (w/ HRF & Alex Hancock) · 26 minIn 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)…
- Ross Ulbricht Was Just the Beginning (w/ The Mises Caucus) · 26 minIn 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…
- You Can't Censor America (w/ Preston Byrne) · 53 minIn preparation for his LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Preston Byrne (Managing Partner at Byrne & Storm) grabs a cold one with host Thomas Pacchia in the PubKey NYC Parlor…
- How Bitcoin Defeats Nihilism (w/ Erik Cason) · 1 h 1 minIn preparation for his LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Erik Cason (author of Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin) grabs a cold one with host Thomas…
- Is Digital Privacy Under Attack? (w/ Frank Corva & David Z. Morris) · 52 minIn preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Frank Corva and David Z. Morris (journalist at The Rage) crack open a few cold ones with host Thomas Pacchia and pregame…
- Has AI Broken the Internet? (w/ HRF & Will Casarin) · 41 minIn preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs, Frank Corva, Zac Guignard (Financial Freedom Content Associate at HRF), and Will Casarin (founder of Damus) crack…
- What's the Final Boss of Bitcoin? (w/ HRF & Jorge Jraissati) · 50 minThomas Pacchia and Jorge Jraissati (Venezuelan activist and president of the Economic Inclusion Group) crack open a few cold ones and pregame in the PubKey NYC Parlor, where they…
- OpenAI Can't Save You (w/ CK, Matt Ahlborg, & Kyle Olney) · 48 minIn preparation for their Live at PubKey show downstairs, Christian "CK" Keroles, Matt Ahlborg, and Kyle Olney (with host Thomas Pacchia) crack open a few cold ones and…
- Who's Afraid of Bitcoin? (w/ Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert) · 47 minMax Keiser and Stacy Herbert pre-game at the PubKey NYC Parlor (with hosts Thomas Pacchia and Mike Germano) in preparation for their LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs. They let…
- PRE-GAMING (w/ Quoth the Raven & Matt Kita) · 36 minQuoth the Raven pre-games at the NYC Parlor with Thomas Pacchia and Matt Kita in preparation for his LIVE AT PUBKEY show downstairs. They let loose for an unfiltered, beer-fueled…
- How AI Unlocks Free Speech Social Media (w/ HRF & Alex Gleason) · 54 minThomas Pacchia sits down for a livestreamed chat in the PubKey Parlor with Alex Li (Bitcoin development lead at the Human Rights Foundation) and Alex Gleason (currently Soapbox…
- What's the 2025 Bitcoin Meta? (w/ Alex Leishman) · 50 minThomas Pacchia and Drew Armstrong sit down for a livestreamed chat in the PubKey parlor with Alex Leishman (CEO and CTO of River). They discuss: • Why River…
