Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover Crusoe’s $13B deal with Jane Street as the trading firm builds out its AI cloud business for internal use. For interviews, Luxor’s Kaan Farahani joins to discuss their latest addition to Hashrate ...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down Cipher Digital’s plan to build 2.5 GW of gas pipelines to expedite its data center buildouts, including which sites will most likely benefit from the behind-the-meter generation. We also cove...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we break down SB Energy’s IPO plans – with some bankers saying the stock could fetch a $50B valuation despite not yet having an active data center – and dig into the nature of the intertwined financial rel...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with Anthropic’s $35B deal with Lambda for AI cloud compute at Hut 8’s Beacon Point data center, and then we touch on ERCOT missing yesterday’s deadline for a decision on conditional base load clas...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with an AI stock update with a specific focus on IREN, CIFR, and HUT. Then, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel joins to discuss Strategy’s first BTC buy since June, bitcoin ETF flows, and whether BTC is r...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover IREN’s FY2026 earnings, plus interviews with Hive’s Buzz HPC President Craig Tavares, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel on Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech, and investor Ben Pouladian on his takeaways ...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a TLDR of NVIDIA’s blow-out Q2 earnings, before hopping to Trump’s latest Executive Order on bulk-energy system infrastructure to screen for cybersecurity backdoors in imported goods. We wrap ...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with investment bank price targets for IREN in anticipation of its earnings tomorrow, and Ornn’s Kush Bavaria joins to discuss their new H100 volatility index. To end the show, we take a look at th...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Bianco Research Founder Jim Bianco joins for a macro update, where we talk about interest rates in light of the Treasury’s leveled-up buyback program, inflation, and why Bianco thinks the AI CAPEX boom isn...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover TeraWulf’s approval for 482 MW for its Justified data center in Hancock, including how much tax revenue the data center could earn for the county and the state of Kentucky, its job impact, and how...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover Keel Infrastructure’s response to Josh Shapiro’s executive order for data centers and how Citadel has shed part of the book it acquired from Situational Awareness. Plus, the GOP is urging AI compa...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we give an update on the Texas Public Utilities Commission’s meeting on ERCOT’s new Batch Zero timeline, including what it means for potential base load consideration for Hut 8 and Cipher Digital. For inte...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today’s show centers on a single theme: the data center culture war. We open with a deep dive into Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s new executive order that overhauls the data center approval process in the s...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we open with a note on Loudon County, the richest county in America which also happens to house 6-8% of all US data centers, from which it will reap $1.4B in property taxes this year. For interviews, we we...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! At the top of the show, we cover Core Scientific’s Q2 earnings and $14B AMD deal, plus Applied Digital’s FY2026 earnings. For other news, we tackle Galaxy Digital’s site acquisition for a 74 MW AI data center and...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For today’s bonus show, we have an interview with CleanSpark CBO Harry Sudock, where we dive into CleanSpark’s $6.6B deal for its Sandersville data center, its inaugural tenant’s potential expansion into Texas, a...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story today, we cover Nvidia, Meta, Microsft, et al.’s open letter in defense of open weight models and whether it will be enough to stanch off regulation that bans these Chinese models in the US. Fo...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story today, Etched just raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation to scale out the AI ASIC that is at the heart of its high-risk, high-reward business model. For interviews, we sit down with Harry Sudock, ...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story today, AMD and Anthropic are teaming up for a 2 GW AI rollout that includes AMD investing $5 billion in Anthropic. For other news, we cover OpenAI reportedly planning to spend $750 billion on c...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Nvidia disclosed a 9.3% stake in Nebius this week, so we open the show by taking a look at Nvidia’s stake in other key AI companies. Plus, Anchorage Digital’s Head of Research David Lawant joins us to discuss bit...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! AI stocks are ripping, so we open today’s show with a market segment, including Q2 earnings and revenue forecasts from FactSet. For new, we cover Hut 8’s $19.6B deal that fills out the capacity for its Beacon Poi...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For today’s bonus episode, an interview with TeraWulf Co-Founder and CTO/COO Nazar Khan, where we cover TeraWulf’s Anthropic deal, the sale of the Abernathy JV, and what NY’s data center moratorium means for Tera...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today’s lineup is packed with interview. To start, HIVE Executive Chairman Frank Holmes joins us to discuss the company’s headway on its AI builds across Sweden and Canada, and then Luxor’s Alessandro Cecere hops...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! We open today with a market update, paying attention specifically to the Goldman Sachs High-Beta Momentum Index, which is down 24% month-to-date for the worst route since April 2009. Plus, Pirate Wires’ Brady Dal...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, TeraWulf Co-founder and CTO/COO Nazar Khan joins use to discuss the ramifications of NY’s data center moratorium for the company’s NY campuses, financing for its Anthropic deal, and why it’s selling its Ab...

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our lead story, CleanSpark has signed a 20-year, $6.6 billion deal for its Sandersville, Georgia site, with the tenant also holding exclusivity on CleanSpark’s Texas buildouts. For today’s interview, AnchorWa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 $...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...