Freedom
Tech DC
2026

Name: Bitcoin Policy Summit
Start: 2026
End: 2026
Location: Washington DC

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.

Money

Value that moves without asking permission.

Speech

Ideas without censorship or backdoors.

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

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

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?