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Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin — 217 episodes

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IREN’s $2.3B Note Offering, STRC Comes to DeFi, KEEL’s Q1 2026 Earnings

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How to Build an AI Data Center from Scratch

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Whatsminer Firmware is Finally Here, Bitcoin Vegas Recap w/ BTC Inc’s Brandon Green, DeFi is in Shambles

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Tether Freezes $344 million, OnRamp Finance Launch, and DPRK Crypto Hacks

5

Finding Satoshi Documentary, Justin Sun Sues World Liberty Financial, CORZ Opens $3.3B Raise

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DeFi’s $13B Exodus, OPNEXT 2026 Recap, NYDIG Eyes Alcoa Plant for BTC Mining

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Justin Sun vs. Trump, Blackrock’s BTC Income ETF, and Why AI Trading Agents Aren’t That Good (Yet)

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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

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Iran Taxes Oil Tankers in BTC, Morgan Stanley Launches BTC ETF, the NYT Hunts for Satoshi

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Why Bitfarms Rebranded to Keel, and What This Means for Its AI Plans w/ Ben Gagnon

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Matt Odell on OpenSats’ 17th Grant, $270M Drift Hack, Charles Schwab Eyes BTC Trading

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MARA’s 15% Layoffs, CleanSpark’s Bitcoin Bond, Google’s Quantum Computing Bitcoin Break

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Google's Quantum Bitcoin, Fold credit card, and Bitcoin Volatility Index

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Marty Bent on Crypto Laws, Jameson Lopp on AI Agent Safety, Bitdeer’s 180 MW AI Site

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Hut 8 AI Update, Crypto-Backed Mortgages, MARA Sells $1.1B BTC

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Tether's Big Four Audit, Blue Owl's Private Credit Risk, and a New Bitcoin Client?

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The Fed vs. Iran vs. BTC, Layoffs Sweep Crypto, Strategy’s $44 Billion Stock Offering

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SBF Goes to Hollywood, SEC Clears Nasdaq for Tokenized Trading, Clarity on CLARITY

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Kraken IPO CANCELED & Vanity Fair Hates Us

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Coinbase and CLARITY, OP_NET Raises $5M, Blockfills Goes Bankrupt, Drukenmiller Fades BTC

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Arkade Raises $5.1M, CleanSpark's on BTC Price, Luxor's Mining Outlook, and the IRS New Crypto Form

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ENERGY: An Update on TeraWulf’s AI Expansion w/ Nazar Khan

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MINING: The Last Bitcoin Mining Bull Market Ever w/ Liang Wang

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NEWS: $46m Heist Perp Gets Nabbed & Kraken Gets Fed Account

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CULTURE: How to Protect Yourself from a Crypto Kidnapping

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ENERGY: America’s Nuclear Revival is Here w/ Dr. Hash Hashemian

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NEWS: Block’s Layoffs, Magic Eden Drops BTC + ETH, MARA Gets Serious on AI, Jane Street’s Lawsuit

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MINING: Inside Tether’s 50 EH/s Mining Empire w/ Elektron's Rapha Zagury

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Welcome to Blockspace, an emerging tech podcast on AI/HPC, Bitcoin and more!

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MARKETS: The Real Story Behind NAKA’s BTC Inc Transaction

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NEWS: Wall Street Just Gave Your Bitcoin Bonds A (BBB) Triple B Rating

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MARKETS: The Shortest Bear Market Ever w/ Matt Hougan of Bitwise

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MINING: Big Oil Wants Dollars, Not Bitcoin w/ Chris Alfano

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NEWS: Bitdeer's Clarington Lawsuit, $IREN's MSCI Index Listing, and Bitcoin's Quantum Step

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ENERGY: What Bitcoin Miners Need to do to Survive w/ Tom Masiero

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BITCOIN: What Epstein’s Bitcoin Investments Really Reveal w/ Kyle Torpey

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Quantum: The Next Battleground For Bitcoin

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NEWS: Bitcoin Craters, French Gov't Challenge MARA Acquisition, Cipher's Note Sees $13B Buy Interest

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MARKETS: What’s Really Driving Bitcoin’s Price w/ Rory Murray

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BITCOIN: How North Korean Hackers Stole $300M+ Via Telegram w/ Taylor Monahan

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MARKETS: Understanding Thursday’s Market Meltdown

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ENERGY: Understanding ERCOT’s Massive Overhaul w/ Tom Kleckner

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TECH: How Bitcoin engineers are solving the quantum risk

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NEWS: BitGo’s $2 Billion IPO, OpenAI’s Data Center Cost Dispute, ZBD Raises $40 million, and Farcaster Founder Steps Down

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COMPUTE: Inside China’s Control of the Critical Metals Supply Chain w/ Craig Tindale

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TECH: Inside Bitcoin Core's Newest Maintainer

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MARKETS: Inside Riot’s $311M AMD Deal w/ Jason Les

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NEWS: Galaxy’s 830 MW Expansion, BitGo’s $1.96B IPO, BitMine’s $200M Bet on MrBeast

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MARKETS: The Metric That Will Signal A Bitcoin Bottom w/ Checkmatey

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TECH: Unraveling Bitcoin's Quantum Problem (Video-Podcast)

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NEWS: Hut 8’s Eyes 500MW Site, MSCI Keeps MSTR, Florida Revisits a BTC Reserve

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CULTURE: The State of Crypto Media w/ Brady Dale

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COMPUTE: Quantum's $100 Billion Threat To Bitcoin

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CULTURE: Our Predictions For 2026

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Our Top Stories From 2025

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Inside the $220M Bitcoin Infrastructure SPAC w/ Ryan Gentry

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This New Bitcoin Proposal Would Steal Your Bitcoin

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Why The 2025 Bitcoin Bull Run Failed Us

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The Conspiracy Was True: Operation Chokepoint 2.0

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Bitcoin Ruined Your Thanksgiving (Here's What To Do)

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Bitcoin Collapse: Here's Who's Bleeding In The Street

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Bitcoin & Islamic Finance

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Did Jack Dorsey Fix The Bitcoin Merchant Problem?

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$120K Bitcoin Call, Stablecoins, and 2026 BTC Market w/ Galaxy Research Alex Thorn

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The 7 Indicators Saying The Bull Market Isn't Over

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Inside Russia's Secret Bitcoin Mining Industry

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Gold Investors Are Taking A Victory Lap

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The Insanity of Bitcoin's Newest Soft Fork

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Did The CIA Create Bitcoin?

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What we know about the FTX insolvency 3 years later

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The Bitcoin "Dusting" Attack You Didn't Know About W/ Galaxy Digital

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Strategy's Path To $10 Trillion

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Bitcoin Miners Don’t Care About The Filter Debate

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Why Filters Are Playing Into The Fed's Hands w/ Fluffypony

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Larry Fink’s Bitcoin ETF Is Eating Wall Street

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Bitcoin's Missing Piece: Zero-Knowledge Proofs

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Inside the Mind of Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin's Most Polarizing Developer

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Inside The Secret World Of Bitcoin Scammers w/ Junseth

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Kevin Durant’s Coinbase Debacle, Saylor’s Using AI & Monero’s Reorg

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Astrology Tells Us What Bitcoin Is Going To Do in 2026

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How Nepal Used Discord to Elect its Next PM

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How To Beat Coinbase At Their Own Game (But On-Chain)

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Filters Are Futile

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Bears Are Wrong About Strategy’s Bitcoin Play

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Tether on RGB, finding UAE's $700mm in btc, and USGox data on Bitcoin

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5 Essential Privacy Tips For Bitcoin

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Nobody Is Using Bitcoin Right Now

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BONUS EPISODE: Consensus & Core w/ Antoine Riard

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The Tornado Cash Trial, Explained

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We're in a Recession on TikTok, But Not in the Market

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The Economic Case for Bitcoin Treasury Companies

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Comply or Die: Privacy or Palantir

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Can Bitcoin Go Negative? How Bitcoin Futures Contracts Work

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How Bitcoin Treasuries Will Cause The Next Bear Market

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Bitcoin Needs Self Custody To Survive

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Saylor Is Lapping The Bitcoin Treasury Competition

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Bitcoin Isn’t Changing And That’s A Bad Thing

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The US Government Is Hiding It's Bitcoin Stash

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Where Does Bitcoin Peak This Cycle?

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Who Moved 80,000 BTC?

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Why tokens don't work (except for Bitcoin)

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The Average American Bitcoin Owner Is Not Who You'd Expect

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Bitcoin Was Always Political w/ Casey Rodarmor

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Michael Saylor Wants You to Go Into Debt to Buy Bitcoin (Plus, BTC Mortgages)

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Putting Music On Chain w/ 0xBunzy

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The Great Bitcoin Treasury Bubble

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Bitcoin Has Stockholm Syndrome

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All Your Bitcoin Models Are Broken (But Really)

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The NFT Market is Broken, Here's How To Fix It

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Bitcoin Has a Wrench Attack Problem

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Bitcoin Jesus 2.0: Saylor Era

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Bitcoin Goes Full "Suitcoiner"

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The Bitcoin Attack You Haven't Heard About

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The REAL Bitcoin Pizza Day Story

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We Need Bitcoin For State Pensions, Not Treasuries

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Not Just Coinbase, Everyone’s Leaking Crypto User Data

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What the Samourai Case Means for the Future of BTC Privacy

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Bitcoin OP_RETURN Debate Explained

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Bitcoin Tribalism turns on Core developers

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US States FOMO into Bitcoin?

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Uncle Sam Wants Your Bitcoin

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5 Facts You Didn’t Know About Bitcoin!

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Solving the Bitcoin Builder’s Dilemma with Arch Network

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Are there too many crypto lobbyists in DC?

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This Bitcoin OG is Orange Pilling the Bond Market

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Bitcoins Biggest Crashes

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An Insiders Look Into Bitcoin Development

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Inside Bitcoin’s Darknet Markets

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Julian Assange’s Brother, Gabriel Shipton on Wikileaks & BTC

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Gamestop pulls a Microstrategy

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Stop Ossification: Don't Let BTC Become a Rolex

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Trump Pledges Allegiance to Stablecoins

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What Satoshi Got Wrong About Bitcoin

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Is Bitcoin's Lightning Network A Success?

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Tricking Solana Degens into Stacking Sats

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Bitcoin By The Numbers in 2025

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Diving Even Deeper on Quantum Bitcoin

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He Solved Bitcoin Memecoins!

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The Six Bitcoin Stakeholder Groups w/ Lyn Alden

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The Crazy Satoshi Theory About Jack Dorsey

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Going Public With Bitcoin App Fold

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What You Didn’t Know About Wrapped Bitcoin

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Operation Chokepoint 2.0 Gets Choked Out

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Are We Winning Yet?

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Trade War Bullish for Bitcoin?

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You're not bullish enough on rare satoshis

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Ordinals BLOODBATH & DeepSeek

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The Story of the Silk Road

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Trump Proves We're All Shitcoiners Now

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Ep72: Ranking the BEST Bitcoin Reserves (Tierlist!)

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Ep71: Save in Bitcoin, Spend in Dollars w/ Shezhan Marieda

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Ep71: Runes do or DIE moment!

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Ep70: Hal Finney's best quotes

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Ep69: Changing the game for Bitcoin custodians w/ Rob Hamilton

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Ep68: Is your staked Bitcoin at risk?

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Ep67: How astrology forecasts Bitcoin in 2025 w/ Erin Redwing

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Ep66: The Taproot Wizards Enter the Spellverse

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Ep65: Layers VS Saylors

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Ep64: Are Big Blockers BACK? (+ Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?)

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Ep63: Bitcoin Already Has a Solution to Quantum Computing

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Ep62: The Bitcoin eco is getting weird at $100k

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Ep61: Bitcoin is at a custodianship crossroads w/ Willem Schroe

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Ep60: You should be paying attention to this Bitcoin dev chart!

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Ep59: Is Bitcoin doomed to follow the same path as email? w/ Jameson Lopp

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Ep58: Sneaky Bitcoin Scaling!

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Ep57: Investing in Bitcoin's future $100b asset class

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Ep55: AI agents in the 2025 crypto cycle w/ Bootoshi

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Ep54: Bitcoin's Mexican Standoff 🔫🔫

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Ep53: Memecoins thrive on a dying dollar w/ Murad Mahmudov

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Ep52: Superpower Bitcoin with Covenants | Mihael Šinkec

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Ep51: $250k Bitcoin NFT given away on Minecraft???

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Ep50: Who actually decides if Bitcoin soft forks (OP_CAT???)

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Ep49: OP_CAT is bad, filters are useless, and MEV is inevitable w/ Post Capone

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Ep48: The Laser Eye to Degen Spectrum

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Ep47: Not even Bitcoin is safe from AI tokens

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Ep46: Solving Sniping with MagicEden

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Ep45: Superpowering Bitcoin with Ark | Alex B

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Ep44: Bitcoin PIPEs: Do Everything On Bitcoin Without A Soft Fork?

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Ep43: Memecoins & Mempools

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Ep 42: Memecoins Up (Nonbelievers Down) and Swan Lawsuit | Writer's Room

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Ep41: Did you survive the Ordinals Bear Market?

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Ep40: Doing Everything *on* Bitcoin L1 | Chad w/ OPNET

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Ep39: Finding an Ordinals Trading Edge w/ TheHawk

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Ep38: Building a Global State Machine w/ Arch Network | Matt Mudano

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Ep37: F*ck it we Fractal now | Writer's Room

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Ep36: "The Ordinals Ecosystem Mines Bitcoin"

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Ep35: Investing in Bitcoin Season 2 | Tyler Evans, UTXO Mgmt

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Ep34: Restaking Comes to Bitcoin w/ Luke Xie | SatLayer

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Ep33: VCs are pivoting to Bitcoin!

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Ep32: Fractal Bitcoin is coming

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Ep31: Metaprotocol Madness!

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Ep30: Fixing Proof of Stake with Babylon protocol

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Ep29: The Dawn of Bitcoin MEV

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Ep28: The Rise of BitcoinFi

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Ep27: How Udi Started The Taproot Wizards

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Ep26: Making Bitcoin FUN! w/ Parker Day & Casey Rodarmor

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Ep25: The Business Behind the Biggest Bitcoin transactions

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Ep24: Ordinals are Mainstream Now

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Ep23: Builders vs Leverage

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Ep22: Miner Capitulation & UNCOMMON GOODS

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Ep21: Bitcoin L2 Roadmaps

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Ep20: The Future of Fees

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Ep19: Bitcoin is Dead, Everything is Dead

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Ep18: Fighting Back Against Election Fraud with Bitcoin

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Ep17: ETH NFTS are dead, Suss BTC L2s & Saylor yeets BTC

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Ep16: The Biggest Memecoin on the Biggest Blockchain

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Ep15: Fees Pump, OKX Burns Millions & are BRC20s back?

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Ep14: How Maximalism Dies with Dylan LeClair

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Ep13: Return of Runes, Bitcoin Startups, and Has Saylor Gone Soft on ETH?

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Ep12: The Chaos Of Bitcoin Consensus

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Ep11: Weekly Update (5/27)

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Ep10: Behind The Great Rune Rush | Bitcoin Season 2 & The Mining Pod

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Ep9: How to Build a Bitcoin Rollup: Citrea

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Ep8: How the Taproot Wizards made CatVM

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Ep7: Casey & Raph: Behind Runes & Ordinals

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Ep6: Making Ordinals (tooling) Make Sense

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Ep2: MEV On Bitcoin? With Walt Smith and Julian Duran | 002