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Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin — 260 episodes

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Crusoe’s $13B Deal with Jane Street, ERCOT Batch Zero Classifications, Luxor’s GPU Price Index

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Cipher’s 2.5 GW Gas Pipeline, IREN’s $2.8B GPU Financing, Nscale’s IPO and $103B Contract Backlog

3

SB Energy IPO Analysis, Google Taps 396MW of Geothermal with Fervo, Bitdeer’s $100M Landgrab for Rockdale

4

Anthropic’s $35B Lambda Deal, ERCOT Misses Batch Zero Baseload Deadline, Anti-AI Politicians Are Getting Rich from AI Stocks

5

IREN, CIFR, HUT Stock Price Updates, PUCT Approves Permian Basin Transmission Line, SpaceX’s Turbine Fabrication

6

IREN’s FY26 Earnings, Hive Buzz HPC President Interview, Warsh Jackson Hole Speech Recap

7

NVIDIA’s Explosive Q2 Earnings, Trump’s Energy Systems Executive Order, Matt Prusak Giga Energy Interview

8

IREN Stock Update, Ornn’s H100 Volatility Index, OpenAI is Hemorrhaging Talent, Moonshot in Talks with Hyperscalers for Kimi K3

9

Macro Update With Jim Bianco, Needham Flags ERCOT Risk for AI Stocks, OK’s Industrial Tax Exemption Faces Vote

10

TeraWulf Secures 482 MW for Justified, Morgan Stanley Sees Powered Shell Deal Uptick, Luxor Pilots GPU Curtailment

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Keel Responds to PA Data Center Executive Order, and 75% of Americans Oppose Data Centers

12

TPUC’s Batch Zero Meeting, Soluna CEO Interview, Ionic Digital’s Q2 Earnings

13

Josh Shapiro’s Data Center Executive Order (and What it Means for KEEL, NBIS), Plus a Look at National Data Center Pushback

14

Loudon County’s $1.4B Data Center Boon, Vineland Approves DataOne/Nebius Expansion, Crusoe Eyes IPO

15

Core Scientific’s Q2 Earnings + $14B AMD Deal, Galaxy Digital’s 74 MW Site, Meta and Blackrock’s $14B Data Center

16

Inside CleanSpark's Sandersville AI Site and Texas Expansion w/ Harry Sudock

17

Nvidia and Friends Defend Open-Weight Models, Galaxy Prices $3.5B Note, TX’s New Rules Claim First Data Center Casualty

18

Etched Raises $300M at $10.3B Valuation, CleanSpark Exec Interview, Fluidstack’s OK Site for Jane Street

19

AMD’s $5B Anthropic Investment, OpenAI’s $750B Compute Spend, Galaxy’s $3.5B Raise

20

NVDA’s 9.3% NBIS Stake, Jack Mallers Out as XXI Capital CEO, Anthropic's $1.5B Lawsuit Settlement

21

Hut 8’s $19.6B Beacon Point Deal, IREN’s $2.8B AI Cloud Contracts, Uncle Same Moves on Kimi K3

22

An Update on TeraWulf’s AI Play and What NY’s Moratorium Actually Means w/ Nazar Khan

23

HIVE Exec Chair Interview, BTC Mining in South America, Kimi K3, Compute Exchange’s Secondary GPU Market

24

Why AI Stocks are Crashing, “Is AI Conscious?” Pirate Wires Interview, Soluna’s MSFT Exec Hire

25

SPCX Falls Below IPO Price, WULF Co-Founder Interview, Nebius Opens AI Stack to 3rd Party Partners

26

CleanSpark’s $6.6B Sandersville Deal, NY Data Center Moratorium, Keel’s Sherbrooke Land Grab

27

Meta’s $50B Data Center, Strategy’s $467M MSTR Raise, Native American Tribes are Split on Data Centers

28

How CCP-Linked Entities Derailed $23.6B in Data Center Projects Across the US

29

TeraWulf’s $3.5B Raise, Big Digital Energy’s Hood County AI Plans, SK Hynix’s $26.5B Nasdaq Debut

30

MARA’s $600M Texas Acquisition, PUC/ERCOT’s New Data Center Rules, Hunterbrook’s Bloom Energy Short Report

31

Why Anthropic Could Be Worth $6T by 2027, Inside CCP-Linked Data Center Pushback, Amazon’s $25B Bond

32

WULF’s $19B Anthropic Deal, Strategy Sells $216M in Bitcoin, Keel Hires Data Center Vet as President

33

IREN’s $700M Executive Comp, Anthropic's AI Chip, NVDA’s Neocloud Revenue Share Model

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Trump's $1.4B Crypto Payday and Meta is Entering the AI Cloud Business

35

US Data Center Share vs. the World, How Stock Values Track GPU Rental Prices, the BIS is Bearish AI

36

SpaceX Bonds Tumble, How Saylor Can Save Strategy, and the 3 Archetypes of Anti-Data Center Activism

37

Hive’s Boden AI Deal / $100M Note and Galaxy Wins Approval for McGregor AI Site

38

SpaceX’s $20B Bond, Trump’s Quantum Executive Order, CRWV and NBIS Join the Nasdaq 100

39

SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B, Nvidia Closes $25B Debt Raise, Cipher Hires Former ERCOT Director

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Why Anthropic Axed Mythos/Fable 5, IREN Seals 490MW Nostrum Acquisition, EPA Won’t Regulate Data Centers

41

Inside TeraWulf's Lake Mariner Data Center Construction: "They're Working Around the Clock"

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SpaceX’s $2T IPO by the Numbers and Anthropic’s 1 GW Search for Capacity

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Retail Piles into SpaceX IPO, Inside TeraWulf’s Lake Mariner AI Site, CoreWeave’s $3.5B Unsecured Note

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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

47

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

48

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

50

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

56

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

57

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

58

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?

60

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

61

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

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Kraken IPO CANCELED & Vanity Fair Hates Us

63

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

64

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

80

Quantum: The Next Battleground For Bitcoin

81

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

100

This New Bitcoin Proposal Would Steal Your Bitcoin

101

Why The 2025 Bitcoin Bull Run Failed Us

102

The Conspiracy Was True: Operation Chokepoint 2.0

103

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

104

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

105

Bitcoin & Islamic Finance

106

Did Jack Dorsey Fix The Bitcoin Merchant Problem?

107

$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

109

Inside Russia's Secret Bitcoin Mining Industry

110

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

119

Bitcoin's Missing Piece: Zero-Knowledge Proofs

120

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

129

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

139

Saylor Is Lapping The Bitcoin Treasury Competition

140

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?

143

Who Moved 80,000 BTC?

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Why tokens don't work (except for Bitcoin)

145

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

151

All Your Bitcoin Models Are Broken (But Really)

152

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

157

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?

164

Uncle Sam Wants Your Bitcoin

165

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?

168

This Bitcoin OG is Orange Pilling the Bond Market

169

Bitcoins Biggest Crashes

170

An Insiders Look Into Bitcoin Development

171

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

174

Stop Ossification: Don't Let BTC Become a Rolex

175

Trump Pledges Allegiance to Stablecoins

176

What Satoshi Got Wrong About Bitcoin

177

Is Bitcoin's Lightning Network A Success?

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Tricking Solana Degens into Stacking Sats

179

Bitcoin By The Numbers in 2025

180

Diving Even Deeper on Quantum Bitcoin

181

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

185

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?

188

Trade War Bullish for Bitcoin?

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You're not bullish enough on rare satoshis

190

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