{"id":1963,"date":"2025-12-22T23:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/bitcoin-does-cultural-diplomacy-in-a-dive-bar\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T23:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:43:43","slug":"bitcoin-does-cultural-diplomacy-in-a-dive-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/bitcoin-does-cultural-diplomacy-in-a-dive-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/258205_Inside_the_opening_of_Pubkey_DCs_first_bitcoin_bar_CVirginia2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">Bitcoin culture, by nature, is anarchical and chaotic. It <em>has <\/em>to be, given the nature of Bitcoin itself and the people who adopted it: free-market libertarians who&rsquo;ve gone all in on turning computer code into a form of money divorced from central banks, government intervention, and traceability. In short, it&rsquo;s the exact opposite culture of Washington, DC, home of the federal government, where everyone agrees that the American dollar exists and is worth X amount because the government says so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">So it was a bizarre shock to K Street, the corporate lobbying heart of the nation&rsquo;s capital, when it was announced that Pubkey, a Bitcoin-themed dive  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/849133\/pubkey-dc-opening-bitcoin-bar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin culture, by nature, is anarchical and chaotic. 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