The United States Capitol

Freedom
Tech DC
2026

SEP 22–23, 2026  ·  WASHINGTON, DC
A summit on the future of money, speech, and intelligence, and the fight to keep them free.

For most of the last century, national power was counted in steel, oil, and warheads. In this one it runs on the technologies of money, speech, and compute, the rails beneath economic life and public argument, and now intelligence itself.

A physical gold Bitcoin coin
Money
Value that moves without asking permission.
Source code on a screen
Speech
Ideas without censorship or backdoors.
Macro photograph of a computer chip
Compute
Powerful models, open and lawful.
Policymakers are now faced with the once-in-a-generation task of writing the rules that govern these transformative systems.

If we get this right, America compounds a generational advantage; get it wrong and we cede the century to surveillance, capture, and rivals who have already chosen control.

Key Questions
The New York Stock Exchange
01

Who gets access to the most capable systems, and on whose authority?

Network cables in a data center
02

Does the enormous build-out of energy and compute we need to outpace China become an engine of broad competition, or a set of chokepoints a few firms and agencies can throttle?

Earth at night seen from orbit
03

Can frontier capability stay open and lawful without being surrendered either to a handful of incumbents or to the most dangerous people online?

Last Year’s Event

A look back at last year’s Bitcoin Policy Summit — the conversations, the people, the momentum.

The Program

Inside PubKey DC
SEP 21 · WELCOME

Inaugural DC Beefsteak

PubKey DC
Panel on stage at the 2025 Bitcoin Policy Summit
SEP 22 · ALL DAY

Day 1

Establishing the Stakes
National Press Club
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
SEP 22 · EVENING

Black-Tie Gala

Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
Policy panel on stage at the Bitcoin Policy Summit
SEP 23 · ALL DAY

Day 2

Hands-On Policy Work
PubKey DC
Closing party crowd at PubKey DC
SEP 23 · EVENING

Closing Party

PubKey DC
The United States Capitol
SEP 24 · MORNING

Day on the Hill

United States Capitol

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Freedom Tech DC convenes the technologists, investors, policymakers, and scholars serious enough to work it through, and to set a freedom-first course for American technological leadership before the defaults are set for us.