Bitcoin lives here.

Est. block 735075

PubKey exists because of Bitcoin. Before there was a bar, there was a happy hour: friends taking over the corner of a Greenwich Village dive to argue about the future of money. The bar came later, so the conversation would always have a home.

A four-person panel on the PubKey stage under a screen reading “Raising the Bar: Bitcoiners Build a Home in DC.”

That's why this place is part pub, part media house, and part meeting hall. Ideas need somewhere loud to grow up. Ours picked a bar.

You'll see it everywhere once you look: blocks ticking by on the LEDs above the bar, a Bitcoin tap pouring pilsner, miners humming on the shelf. And you'll feel it in the room, because the whole point was never the technology. It was the people who show up to talk about it.

No homework required. Come as you are, order what you like, ask questions if you feel like it.

“Bitcoin needs its tavern and meeting house to cultivate some of these revolutionary, cultural, economic, and technical changes that it's been the catalyst for.”
Thomas Pacchia, PubKey co-founder

Built into the room

The blocktron LED board behind the bar, glowing with the current block height above shelves of cassettes, books, and bar oddities.

The blocktron

LED signs above the bar ticking off every new block, live.

A beer tap handle capped with a glowing orange Bitcoin logo, with the back bar and the blocktron behind it.

The Bitcoin tap

Yes, there's a beer tap shaped like the coin. Yes, it pours.

A sheep-shaped bitcoin miner on a lit stone base on the shelf, next to a sign reading “Don’t pet the sheep!”

The miners on the shelf

A little fleet of miners humming away over the bar, hunting for a block of their own.

Pay in bitcoin, save 21%.

Settle your tab in bitcoin and we'll knock a steep 21% off it. Ask your bartender; it takes about ten seconds.