Best Blockspace Media Podcasts (2025)

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Cipher’s Amazon Deal, IREN’s Microsoft Deal, Q3 Earnings Recap, and is China Winning the AI Race? 31:35

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Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Matt talk about two massive hyperscaler deals that have upped the expectations for AI-pivots. Cipher Mining just secured a $5.5B, 15-year lease with Amazon Web Services for 300MW at their Bear Lake facility, while IREN…

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Restaking's Killer App w/ DeFi Dave 54:30

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DeFi Dave, Head of Growth at Cap Money, joins us to talk about how Cap found product-market fit for restaking. Dave breaks down Cap's three-sided marketplace connecting stablecoin users, market makers (operators), and risk takers. Operators access undercollateralized loans backed by restaked ETH/BTC, paying 8-11% to beat their strategies. If they f…

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Inside Russia's Secret Bitcoin Mining Industry 29:09

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Anna Baydakova, Senior Reporter at CoinDesk joins us to talk about Russia's complex relationship with Bitcoin. From Putin's surprising embrace of crypto mining to the grey market of mining rig distribution, Anna reveals how sanctions transformed Russia's crypto landscape. We explore Siberian mining operations and why Russians increasingly turn to B…

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Picking Winners in the Bitcoin Miner AI Race w/ Kevin Dede 35:56

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Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Kevin Dede, Managing Director at H.C. Wainwright, joins us to give a pulse check on the bitcoin miners pivoting to AI. We cover the latest deals from IREN, Cipher, Terawulf, and others, and pick apart whether the neocloud or pow…

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Gold Investors Are Taking A Victory Lap 21:43

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Gold Investors Are Taking A Victory Lap! Colin explains how Boomer goldbugs finally get to take a victory lap as Bitcoin gets beaten out by gold in 2025. Were Bitcoiners wrong about the debasement trade?Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.comNotes:• Gold beats Bitcoin in 2025• Gold is winning the debasement trade• It’s a…

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Core Scientific-CoreWeave Deal Fails, CleanSpark Eyes 285 MW AI Site, TeraWulf’s $9.5B Fluidstack Deal 43:25

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Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter for market-making news as it hits the wire! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! For this week’s roundup, we break down Core Scientific shareholders voting NO on the $9B CoreWeave acquisition, CleanSpark's plans for a new 285 megawatt Texas site for AI workloads, and TeraWulf's record 25-year contract with FluidSta…

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The Insanity of Bitcoin's Newest Soft Fork 33:48

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Rob Hamilton from AnchorWatch joins us to talk about the explosive BIP 444 proposal that could fork Bitcoin. We break down PortlandHodl's original 520-byte output limit idea, LukeDashjr's controversial technique to ban inscriptions, and the legal pressure being applied to mining pools. Rob explains why this fork will likely fail, what happens to yo…

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Circle's Bet On The Future Of Money 1:05:58

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Gordon Liao, Head of Research at Circle, discusses the explosive growth of USDC to a $50 billion market cap. Gordon also explains how stablecoins are revolutionizing cross-border payments, the regulatory landscape shaping crypto, Circle's strategic IPO timing, and why blockchain-based payment rails will disrupt tradfi. Subscribe to the newsletter! …

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Has the Market Left MARA Behind? 35:27

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, we dive deep into MARA, the largest public Bitcoin miner by hash rate at 60.4 EH/s. Despite leading in hashrate, MARA has lagged behind peers like Riot and CleanSpark with just a 5.4% YoY return versus competitors seeing double or triple digit gains. We break down the ownership structure of MARA’s current bitc…

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Did The CIA Create Bitcoin? 27:56

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Tucker Carlson says the CIA probably created Bitcoin. We go back to the very beginning – to Gavin Andresen and the 1996 NSA paper on digital cash. The rabbithole goes very deep! (And we explain why it’s probably FUD) Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: • 1996 NSA paper on digital cash • Gavin Andresen 2011 CIA…

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TeraWulf’s Record $3.2B Note, Miner Debt Tops $20B, and Why AI Firms Are Buying Jet Engines 26:43

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week, we dive into TeraWulf’s $3.2B secured note for AI infrastructure—the largest ever for a public miner – and Bitfarms’ $588M convertible note at a time when total industry debt crosses $20B.Plus, why data center companies are salvaging jet turbines to power data centers, CleanSpark’s SVP of AI Data Centers h…

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What we know about the FTX insolvency 3 years later 43:23

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Investigative reporters Jonathan & Sophie dive much deeper into what happened *after* SBF was ousted. Hundreds of thousands of individual customers became creditors, getting paid in dollar values from the bankruptcy filing date when the market bottomed out (Meanwhile, nearly $1 billion in fees went to the bankruptcy process expenses) When you're wa…

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NABs Takeaways: What Ppl Miss About the BTC ETF, Alberta Is Just Getting Started With BTC 42:21

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Click Here To Join the BitAxe Giveaway! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, we have a two-for-one show with two interviews we recorded at the North American Blockchain Summit. To start, Colin interviews Blue Macellari (Head of Digital Assets at T. Rowe Price) on how institutional adoption is fundamentally changing Bitcoin's market structure, the…

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Why The Internet Is Too Slow for Trading Now 1:19:27

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Austin Federa, founder of Double Zero, joins us to talk about building a new internet optimized for blockchain. We dive into how Double Zero uses private fiber networks from trading firms like Jump to reduce jitter and latency for validators, why proof-of-utility beats proof-of-stake for infrastructure, how they secured a rare SEC no-action letter,…

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The Bitcoin "Dusting" Attack You Didn't Know About W/ Galaxy Digital 33:19

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Zach Pokorny from Galaxy Digital joins us to discuss their deep investigation into the mysterious 80,000 Bitcoin whale that moved last summer. The report uncovers a massive dusting campaign targeting over 40,000 addresses holding 2.3 million BTC with fake "abandoned property" notices. We dive into the Salomon Brothers connection, the $90K cost of t…

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MARA’s CTO Shakeup, BlackRock’s $40B AI Deal, Bitdeer’s $2B AI Plans, Ionic Digital’s Microsoft Deal 39:23

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Click Here To Join the BitAxe Giveaway! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! This week, Luxor CEO Nick Hansen joins us to talk multi-month hashprice lows (how low do we go?), MARA firing its CTO, Ionic Digital’s Microsoft-linked AI deal, Bitdeer’s gangbusters September and $2B AI plans, and BlackRock taking the lead on a $40B data center company acquisi…

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Strategy's Path To $10 Trillion 37:03

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Pio Vincenzo joins us to talk about why MicroStrategy could become a $10 trillion company, how Bitcoin miners like Riot and Cipher are pivoting to AI infrastructure, and why the traditional four-year Bitcoin cycle is officially dead. Pierre breaks down the Bitcoin treasury company trend, explains why time is on Bitcoin's side, and shares his contro…

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Bitcoin’s 4 Year Cycles Are Over w/ Rory Murray 34:28

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Click Here To Join the BitAxe Giveaway! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Rory Murray, VP of digital asset management at CleanSpark, joins us to talk about the explosive markets we're seeing in late 2024, why he believes Bitcoin's four-year cycle is dead, and the secular trends that will define the next chapter of crypto. We dive deep into the…

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The Tether Monopoly Is Over 1:06:24

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Facundo Werning, former Tether country manager for Latin America and now at Agora, joins us to talk about his journey from Argentine policy work to the front lines of the stablecoin wars. We dive deep into how stablecoins actually work in emerging markets, why Agora is positioning itself as the credibly neutral alternative to Tether and Circle, the…

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Bitcoin Miners Don’t Care About The Filter Debate 19:35

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We're reporting live from the North American Blockchain Summit in Dallas, Texas, where roughly 30% of the world's Bitcoin hashrate is decided. The shocking reality? Bitcoin miners don't care about Core v30 or technical debates. They care about electrons, steel, aluminum, and profit. We break down how Foundry became the largest pool with 0% fees, wh…

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IREN $875M Note, Luxor Energy, Record BTC ETF Flows 25:25

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IREN continues its hot streak with a big raise, and crypto ETFs saw a record week last week. Click Here To Join the BitAxe Giveaway! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ethan Vera from Luxor joins us live from NABs in Dallas to talk about IREN's $875 million convertible note following their AI cloud deal announcement, Luxor's launch of an ERCOT-…

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Why Filters Are Playing Into The Fed's Hands w/ Fluffypony 1:03:26

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Riccardo Spagni (Fluffypony), former Monero lead maintainer, joins the Bitcoin filter debate and explains why it's following the same playbook as the blocksize wars. Riccardo explains his early studies on Sybil attacking Bitcoin nodes, why filtering is fundamentally broken censorship, the thankless job of being a protocol maintainer. We also discus…

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JPMorgan Says Buy These Bitcoin Mining Stocks 33:35

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Saylor Survives, other crypto DATs are cooked 1:03:01

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James Christoph explains why MicroStrategy can't be replicated, DATs are doomed, and crypto markets are more efficient than people think. Plus: Celestia's inflation problem, Ethena's systemic risks, and why Hyperliquid nailed their stablecoin strategy.Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.comNOTES:• MicroStrategy's structu…

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Larry Fink’s Bitcoin ETF Is Eating Wall Street 26:10

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“Uptober” is absolutely delivering Bitcoin pushes $121K with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin ETF breaking into the top 20 ETFs by AUM - a meteoric rise for an asset that was "a scam" according to Larry Fink just two years ago. Hashrate hits the historic 1 Zetahash milestone, mining stocks see 624% gains led by AI pivots, and ordinals collections pump d…

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ICE Raids BTC Mine, EOY Hashrate Forecast, Core Scientific CRWV Vote, Tether’s BTC Holdings 32:58

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Click Here To Join the BitAxe Giveaway! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ben Harper from Luxor Technologies joins us to talk about the brutal hash rate environment as hashrate surges past 1 zettahash. For news, we break down ICE's raid on a Bitcoin miner repair shop in Pyote, Texas, Core Scientific’s shareholder vote for the CoreWeave acquisi…

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Bitcoin's Missing Piece: Zero-Knowledge Proofs 39:19

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Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder of StarkNet and Zcash, announces StarkNet's major Bitcoin news: native Bitcoin staking on StarkNet. Starknet has 100 million STRK tokens allocated for competitive Bitcoin lending rates and Bitcoin yield strategies. Eli explains why zero-knowledge proofs are the scalability solution Bitcoin needs, how StarkNet enables self…

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Trading the AI/HPC Sector, Bitdeer's ASIC, Bitcoin’s Parabolic Hashrate w/Pennyether 55:29

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Click Here To Join the BitAxe Giveaway! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, independent stock analyst Pennyether joins us to talk about Bitcoin hashrate crossing 1 zettahash, the economics of ASIC manufacturing, and how Bitdeer could challenge Bitmain's dominance. We explore why miners spend 35-40% of revenue on ASICs, the HPC narrative driving …

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Cipher’s Amazon Deal, IREN’s Microsoft Deal, Q3 Earnings Recap, and is China Winning the AI Race? 31:35

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Restaking's Killer App w/ DeFi Dave 54:30

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Inside Russia's Secret Bitcoin Mining Industry 29:09

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Picking Winners in the Bitcoin Miner AI Race w/ Kevin Dede 35:56

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Gold Investors Are Taking A Victory Lap 21:43

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Core Scientific-CoreWeave Deal Fails, CleanSpark Eyes 285 MW AI Site, TeraWulf’s $9.5B Fluidstack Deal 43:25

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The Insanity of Bitcoin's Newest Soft Fork 33:48

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Circle's Bet On The Future Of Money 1:05:58

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Has the Market Left MARA Behind? 35:27

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Did The CIA Create Bitcoin? 27:56

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TeraWulf’s Record $3.2B Note, Miner Debt Tops $20B, and Why AI Firms Are Buying Jet Engines 26:43

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What we know about the FTX insolvency 3 years later 43:23

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NABs Takeaways: What Ppl Miss About the BTC ETF, Alberta Is Just Getting Started With BTC 42:21

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Why The Internet Is Too Slow for Trading Now 1:19:27

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The Bitcoin "Dusting" Attack You Didn't Know About W/ Galaxy Digital 33:19

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MARA’s CTO Shakeup, BlackRock’s $40B AI Deal, Bitdeer’s $2B AI Plans, Ionic Digital’s Microsoft Deal 39:23

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Strategy's Path To $10 Trillion 37:03

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Bitcoin’s 4 Year Cycles Are Over w/ Rory Murray 34:28

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The Tether Monopoly Is Over 1:06:24

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Bitcoin Miners Don’t Care About The Filter Debate 19:35

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IREN $875M Note, Luxor Energy, Record BTC ETF Flows 25:25

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Why Filters Are Playing Into The Fed's Hands w/ Fluffypony 1:03:26

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JPMorgan Says Buy These Bitcoin Mining Stocks 33:35

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Saylor Survives, other crypto DATs are cooked 1:03:01

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Larry Fink’s Bitcoin ETF Is Eating Wall Street 26:10

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ICE Raids BTC Mine, EOY Hashrate Forecast, Core Scientific CRWV Vote, Tether’s BTC Holdings 32:58

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Bitcoin's Missing Piece: Zero-Knowledge Proofs 39:19

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Trading the AI/HPC Sector, Bitdeer's ASIC, Bitcoin’s Parabolic Hashrate w/Pennyether 55:29