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Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin
by Blockspace Media
Bitcoin conversations from the deep end, covering markets, tech, compute, and culture from hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper. Three episodes per week, on all podcast players, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk and more. Drop us a listen and review!
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Meta’s $50B Data Center, Strategy’s $467M MSTR Raise, Native American Tribes are Split on Data Centers
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Tech stocks are bleeding today, so we kick off today’s stream with a market update to look into what’s spooking the market. Lygos CEO Jay Patel also joins us today to discuss the market’s reaction to Strategy rai...
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How CCP-Linked Entities Derailed $23.6B in Data Center Projects Across the US
For today's bonus episode, Sam Lyman, head of research at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, joins us to discuss how CCP affiliate Neville Roy Singham, his nonprofits, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are behind efforts that have forestalled or de...
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TeraWulf’s $3.5B Raise, Big Digital Energy’s Hood County AI Plans, SK Hynix’s $26.5B Nasdaq Debut
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story, TeraWulf plans to raise $3.5 billion with a mix of leveraged loans and corporate bonds, according to CFO Patrick Fleurry as reported by Bloomberg. For interviews, we welcome Luxor’s Kaan Farah...
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MARA’s $600M Texas Acquisition, PUC/ERCOT’s New Data Center Rules, Hunterbrook’s Bloom Energy Short Report
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! The Texas Public Utilities Commission held a meeting today that will decide just how much data centers pay for grid infrastructure, and we cover MARA’s acquisition of a 1,200 acre site in Texas that could scale u...
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Why Anthropic Could Be Worth $6T by 2027, Inside CCP-Linked Data Center Pushback, Amazon’s $25B Bond
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! SemiAnalysis just put out a report on projections for Anthropic’s Q3 earnings, and it forecasts that the company could pull in $1 billion this quarter and be worth as much as $6 trillion by the end of 2027. Plus,...
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WULF’s $19B Anthropic Deal, Strategy Sells $216M in Bitcoin, Keel Hires Data Center Vet as President
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story today, TeraWulf has signed a 20 year, $19 billion deal with Anthropic for 401MW of critical IT load at its Hawesville, KY site. Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel also joins us to discuss Strategy’s $...
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IREN’s $700M Executive Comp, Anthropic's AI Chip, NVDA’s Neocloud Revenue Share Model
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we dive into IREN’s new stock awards to its co-CEOs, valued at $700 million at the time of publication, Anthropic reportedly tapping Samsung to build a custom AI chip, and Nvidia standing up a new program ...
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Trump's $1.4B Crypto Payday and Meta is Entering the AI Cloud Business
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down how Trump made roughly $1.4 billion from crypto ventures in 2025 across World Liberty Financial and TRUMP coin, and we cover what Meta’s reportedly moving into the AI cloud business means for...
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US Data Center Share vs. the World, How Stock Values Track GPU Rental Prices, the BIS is Bearish AI
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Rob Hamilton of Anchor Watch joins us for a temperature check on the bitcoin market and Strategy’s STRC preferred stock, and Kush Bavaria, CEO of Ornn, hops on to talk about trends in the GPU rental market...
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SpaceX Bonds Tumble, How Saylor Can Save Strategy, and the 3 Archetypes of Anti-Data Center Activism
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Thomas Braziel, a partner at 117 Partners, joins us to talk about how Strategy can salvage its capital structure given the ensuing crisis with STRC. We also dive into the brutal secondary market debut of S...
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Hive’s Boden AI Deal / $100M Note and Galaxy Wins Approval for McGregor AI Site
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today for news, we cover HIVE’s LOI with an “investment-grade Swedish tech company” to serve as tenant for its 32 MW data center in Bode, Sweden, as well as the company’s $100M convertible note sale, and Galaxy D...
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SpaceX’s $20B Bond, Trump’s Quantum Executive Order, CRWV and NBIS Join the Nasdaq 100
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Alex Pruden, CEO of Project 11 joins us to talk about the White House's latest executive orders on quantum computing. We dive into how these directives impact cybersecurity, the digital asset landscape, an...
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SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B, Nvidia Closes $25B Debt Raise, Cipher Hires Former ERCOT Director
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! SpaceX (SPCX) just won’t stop. The stock is up 50% from its IPO price, and it also just acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction. For other news, Nvidia just closed a $25 bill...
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Why Anthropic Axed Mythos/Fable 5, IREN Seals 490MW Nostrum Acquisition, EPA Won’t Regulate Data Centers
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Anthropic and Uncle Sam are trading blows again, with the frontier LLM company pulling its recently released Mythos / Fable 5 model after whistleblowers said the model’s guardrails were bypassed. Lygos Finance’s ...
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Inside TeraWulf's Lake Mariner Data Center Construction: "They're Working Around the Clock"
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For today's bonus show, we have an interview with Rich Miller, the founder of Data Center Richness and a seasoned data center journalist with decades of experience under his belt. Miller shares his views on how m...
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SpaceX’s $2T IPO by the Numbers and Anthropic’s 1 GW Search for Capacity
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! SpaceX’s historic IPO came and went today, marking a day of firsts that saw the company close the largest IPO ever at a $2 trillion valuation, making its founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Nakamoto...
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Retail Piles into SpaceX IPO, Inside TeraWulf’s Lake Mariner AI Site, CoreWeave’s $3.5B Unsecured Note
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Retail investors alone have accounted for roughly $75 billion of SpaceX’s IPO round – an amount that SpaceX originally intended to raise before the round became 3x oversubscribed. Plus, for today’s interview, Ric...
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IREN’s $2.3B Note Offering, STRC Comes to DeFi, KEEL’s Q1 2026 Earnings
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Jay Patel, CEO of Lygos Finance, joins us to talk about the emerging trend of Strategy’s STRC derivatives in DeFi. We also break down IREN’s new $2.3B convertible notes offering, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe’s ta...
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How to Build an AI Data Center from Scratch
Taylor Monnig, CTO of CleanSpark joins us to talk about the company's transition from Bitcoin mining into high-performance computing and AI. He explains the engineering shift from "surviving" in the mining space to "thriving" in AI data centers, the st...
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Whatsminer Firmware is Finally Here, Bitcoin Vegas Recap w/ BTC Inc’s Brandon Green, DeFi is in Shambles
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor Technology; Jay Patel, CEO of Ligo Finance; and Brandon Green, CEO of BTC Inc, join us live from Bitcoin Vegas! Ethan Vera breaks down Luxor’s new Whatsminer firmware release and M...
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Tether Freezes $344 million, OnRamp Finance Launch, and DPRK Crypto Hacks
Michael Tangen, CEO of OnRamp Finance, and Taylor Monahan join us to talk about Bitcoin-native financial services and the cascading fallout of the Kelp DAO attack. The team breaks down the massive $344 million Tether freeze on Tron, the controversial 1...
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Finding Satoshi Documentary, Justin Sun Sues World Liberty Financial, CORZ Opens $3.3B Raise
Welcome back to Block Space Live! Today, William Cohan and Tyler Maroney of the Finding Satoshi documentary join us to talk about their years-long search for Bitcoin’s creator. We also dive into the wild crypto extortion scheme that scammers are waging...
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DeFi’s $13B Exodus, OPNEXT 2026 Recap, NYDIG Eyes Alcoa Plant for BTC Mining
Jay Patel, the CEO of Lygos Finance, and Aydin Kilic, CEO of HIVE Digital, join us to respectively discuss risk in crypto credit markets and Hive’s latest $100M senior note. For news, we break down the $293 million Kelp DAO hack by the Lazarus Group an...
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Justin Sun vs. Trump, Blackrock’s BTC Income ETF, and Why AI Trading Agents Aren’t That Good (Yet)
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Zack Pokorny fro...
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Bitcoin is Already Quantum Resistant?! Plus, Inside Iran’s $3B BTC Economy, and U.S. States Are Banning AI Data Centers
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to Block Space Live! Today, Luxor’s Kaan Farahani ...
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Iran Taxes Oil Tankers in BTC, Morgan Stanley Launches BTC ETF, the NYT Hunts for Satoshi
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Antoine Poinsot ...
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Why Bitfarms Rebranded to Keel, and What This Means for Its AI Plans w/ Ben Gagnon
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For today’s bonus epi...
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Matt Odell on OpenSats’ 17th Grant, $270M Drift Hack, Charles Schwab Eyes BTC Trading
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Matt Odell, Co-f...
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MARA’s 15% Layoffs, CleanSpark’s Bitcoin Bond, Google’s Quantum Computing Bitcoin Break
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Alex Pruden (Pro...
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Google's Quantum Bitcoin, Fold credit card, and Bitcoin Volatility Index
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Will Reeves (CEO of Fold), Brian Harrington (Bitcoin expert), a...
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Marty Bent on Crypto Laws, Jameson Lopp on AI Agent Safety, Bitdeer’s 180 MW AI Site
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Marty Bent joins...
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Hut 8 AI Update, Crypto-Backed Mortgages, MARA Sells $1.1B BTC
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Hut 8 CEO Asher ...
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Tether's Big Four Audit, Blue Owl's Private Credit Risk, and a New Bitcoin Client?
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Jay Patel, Found...
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The Fed vs. Iran vs. BTC, Layoffs Sweep Crypto, Strategy’s $44 Billion Stock Offering
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we check the mar...
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SBF Goes to Hollywood, SEC Clears Nasdaq for Tokenized Trading, Clarity on CLARITY
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Aydin Kilic, CEO...
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Kraken IPO CANCELED & Vanity Fair Hates Us
Francis Corvino, of Lygos Finance joins us to talk about the Blockfills bankruptcy filing, their $145M in unsecured claims, and why the 2022 "hangover" is still claiming victims today. We also dive into Kraken’s decision to delay its public offering, t...
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Coinbase and CLARITY, OP_NET Raises $5M, Blockfills Goes Bankrupt, Drukenmiller Fades BTC
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we dive into rep...
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Arkade Raises $5.1M, CleanSpark's on BTC Price, Luxor's Mining Outlook, and the IRS New Crypto Form
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to Blockspace! Today, Alex B, Ecosystem Lead at Ar...
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ENERGY: An Update on TeraWulf’s AI Expansion w/ Nazar Khan
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Nazar Khan, CTO ...
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MINING: The Last Bitcoin Mining Bull Market Ever w/ Liang Wang
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Liang Wang, VP o...
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NEWS: $46m Heist Perp Gets Nabbed & Kraken Gets Fed Account
Chris Johhansen of Ion Stream and Kaan Farahani of Luxor join us to talk about the insane arrest of John DeGuida for allegedly stealing $46 million from the US Marshals Service. We break down Kraken Financial’s historic Fed Master Account and what a "s...
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CULTURE: How to Protect Yourself from a Crypto Kidnapping
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Chris Seedor of Seedor & Bitsurance joins us to talk about the ...
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ENERGY: America’s Nuclear Revival is Here w/ Dr. Hash Hashemian
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Dr. Hashem Hashe...
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NEWS: Block’s Layoffs, Magic Eden Drops BTC + ETH, MARA Gets Serious on AI, Jane Street’s Lawsuit
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Charlie and Coli...
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MINING: Inside Tether’s 50 EH/s Mining Empire w/ Elektron's Rapha Zagury
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Rapha Zagury, CE...
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Welcome to Blockspace, an emerging tech podcast on AI/HPC, Bitcoin and more!
Join hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper for weekly insights, stories, and interviews in Bitcoin, AI/HPC and more. With 3 shows per week, we'll fill you up on what's actually happening in the world of emerging tech assets. If you're an investor in pu...
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MARKETS: The Real Story Behind NAKA’s BTC Inc Transaction
Amanda Fabiano, former Head of Mining at Galaxy and now with Nakamoto, joins us to talk about the shift from Bitcoin mining to building diversified Bitcoin operating businesses. Why the "HODL-only" strategy is evolving for Nasdaq-listed companies, the ...
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NEWS: Wall Street Just Gave Your Bitcoin Bonds A (BBB) Triple B Rating
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Matt from CoinShares, Kaan from Luxor, and Jay from Lygos join ...
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MARKETS: The Shortest Bear Market Ever w/ Matt Hougan of Bitwise
Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin. Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise, joins us to talk about the current...
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MINING: Big Oil Wants Dollars, Not Bitcoin w/ Chris Alfano
Chris Alfano, CEO of 360 Energy, joins us to talk about the integration of Bitcoin mining and oil & gas. We discuss the recent investment from Halliburton and what it signals for the industry. Chris explains why major oil companies prefer giving away w...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Bitcoin conversations from the deep end, covering markets, tech, compute, and culture from hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper. Three episodes per week, on all podcast players, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk and more. Drop us a listen and review!
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