Best Blockspace Media Podcasts (2025)

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The 2025 Hashies: Introducing Blockspace’s Annual Awards Show 37:18

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Catch the latest Blockspace documentary, The Bitcoin Professor, on YouTube! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Charlie and Colin proudly inaugurate The Hashies, Blockspace’s annual award show for the best and worst in Bitcoin for that year. The winners of this year’s Hashies, in order of appearance, are as follows: Most Ascendant BTC Mining CEO…

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Getting To The Bottom Of Quantum w/ Rearden 1:14:30

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Bitcoin developer Brandon Black (ReardenCode) analyzes the reality of the quantum computing threat to Bitcoin. He explains the timeline for potential encryption breaks and why the sky isn't falling just yet. Brandon explains proposed solutions like BIP 360 and OP_CAT, and we debate whether Satoshi's stash will eventually be stolen or confiscated. N…

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Bitcoin Mining Stock Vibe Rankings: 2025 Year-End Edition 1:21:32

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Click here to create your own rankings and share them with us on X by tagging @blockspace! Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Will, Colin, and Charlie are back with another (in)famous Vibe Rankings for Bitcoin Mining Stocks. For bitcoin mining stocks, 2025 was a year defined by aggressive expansion in the…

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Our Top Stories From 2025 50:24

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Blockspace Boys — Charlie, Colin, and Will — join us to count down the most impactful and wildest stories of the year. They dive deep into the ICE raid on a Texas Bitcoin mine, the end of Operation Chokepoint 2.0, and the industry-wide pivot to AI and HPC. We also discuss Trump’s tariffs causing miner panic, the "Treasury Narrative" bust, and the l…

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2025: The Year of the Bitcoin ETF w/ Jean-Marie Mognetti 31:57

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Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO of CoinShares, joins us to talk about the financialization of Bitcoin following the ETF launches. We dive into how derivatives and call overwriting could be compressing volatility and changing price action. He also breaks down the cultural and re…

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How Lighter ate away Hyperliquid’s moat 1:01:52

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Vladimir Novakovski, CEO of Lighter, explains their pivot from AI to a high-speed DEX. He addresses the controversy behind their zero-fee model and how ZK circuits ensure verifiability. Vlad says they're surprised at the success of Forex on Lighter, future plans for options and fixed income, and addresses community questions about token value and e…

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Quantum's $100 Billion Threat To Bitcoin 46:36

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Charlie and Colin join us to talk about the existential risk of quantum computing. We break down Nick Carter's latest research, the timeline for a potential quantum break, and the 2 million Bitcoin currently at risk. We debate the ethics of "burning" Satoshi's coins to save the network, the technical challenges of forking to quantum-resistant signa…

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China Mining Crackdown, Hut 8’s $7B Fluidstack Deal, CoreWeave Site Delays 43:42

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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Matt dive into reports of a bitcoin mining crackdown in Xinjiang, China, Hut 8's massive $7B hosting deal with Fluidstack, just-reported summer weather delays at Core Scientific’s Denton facility for CoreWeave, and Blue Owl declining to fund a 1 GW AI site for Oracle. And to close the show, veteran c…

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Coinbase Asset Management is Quietly Driving Bitcoin's Hashrate Growth w/ Doug Wilson 34:59

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Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Doug Wilson, Head of Credit Investments at Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), joins us to talk about their new hashrate backed loans and how they differ from traditional loans for Bitcoin miners. Doug breaks down CBAM’s flexible collateral package, which allows miners to …

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China Mining Ban 2.0? Inside CCP Sweep of Xinjiang's Bitcoin Mines / w Nick Hansen 23:53

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Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Nick Hanson, CEO of Luxor Technology, joins us to talk about the ramifications of the most recent Bitcoin mining crackdown in Xinjiang China, how it relates to the 2021 prior ban, and what could happen to all that hashrate if the crackdown holds. Subscribe to the newslet…

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Inside the $220M Bitcoin Infrastructure SPAC w/ Ryan Gentry 42:08

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Ryan Gentry, CEO of Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp (BIXI), joins us to talk about taking a Bitcoin company public via SPAC. We dive into his journey from aerospace engineering to Lightning Labs, and why so many engineers flock to Bitcoin. Ryan breaks down the current state of Bitcoin infrastructure, the massive opportunity in Bitcoin lendi…

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The Hidden Cost of Zero-Fee DEX's 49:55

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Ruslan Fakhrutdinov from Extended Perp Exchange talks about building a unified margin across perps, vaults & yield, spot, and an integrated lending market. He explains critical components for a trustless perp DEX such as self-custody and on-chain solvency checks. Ruslan shares his experience with user acquisition programs, the total cost of executi…

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ERCOT’s 266 GW Surge, IREN’s $2.3B Raise, GPUs Eat ASICs, Whatsminer M70 Launch 41:44

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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, Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor, joins us as we dive into MicroBT’s Whatsminer M70 launching into a challenging ASIC market, IREN’s $2.3 billion convertible note offering, the precarious state of hashprice, Luxor’s new GPU hardware sal…

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This New Bitcoin Proposal Would Steal Your Bitcoin 40:14

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Today, we break down the controversial "CAT" proposal by Claire Ostrom. This idea suggests snapshotting and burning UTXOs associated with Ordinals and Stamps to curb spam. We analyze the technical flaws, the failed game theory, and why seizing user coins—even "dirty" ones—sets a dangerous precedent for Bitcoin censorship and on-chain confiscation. …

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Kevin O’Leary: 50% of AI Builds Will Fail 32:44

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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 O'Leary, investor and Shark Tank star, joins us to talk about the intersection of Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure. Kevin breaks down why he invested in Bitzero and why the North American grid is all but tapped out. He…

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Why The 2025 Bitcoin Bull Run Failed Us 28:45

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Today, we unpack the "underwhelming" 2025 bull market. Was $126k really the top? We dive into the data showing Bitcoin's 4-year ROI is virtually indistinguishable from the S&P 500 and Gold. We also break down Meltem Demirors’ viral thread on why "Proof of Stake was a mistake", how TradFi revenue has officially flipped DeFi, and why the meme coin su…

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ABTC Investor Unlock, IREN’s $3.6B Capital Raise, Greenidge’s Fire and Land Sale 31:22

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Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter here! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin, Charlie, and Matt break down yet another brutal week for miners. We analyze why ABTC shares tanked 39% following a share unlock and look at IREN's aggressive $3.6B capital raise. The team also covers Greenidge’s Dresden, NY fire and SC land sale. Finally, we …

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The Conspiracy Was True: Operation Chokepoint 2.0 27:36

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We discuss the bombshell report from the House Committee on Financial Services that confirms the existence of **Operation Chokepoint 2.0**—a coordinated, extralegal effort by the Biden Administration to push the crypto industry out of the US banking system. Review Nic Carter's original exposes, how the "conspiracy" became formal documentation, and …

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Zcash Resurgence, Privacy, and Quantum w/ Zcash cofounder Ian Miers 1:09:23

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Zcash cofounder Ian Miers discusses zero-knowledge proofs, why Bitcoin's public ledger creates massive privacy problems, how SNARKs enable trust without exposure, quantum computing threats to cryptocurrency, identity and reputation systems, and why a blockchain needs privacy to function as actual money. Notes: • Zcash launched as first industrial z…

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Bitcoin Ruined Your Thanksgiving (Here's What To Do) 26:09

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We analyze Bitcoin's historical holiday performance from 2012-2024, revealing that Thanksgiving-to-Christmas returns are a perfect 50/50 coin toss. We break down why 2017's spectacular bull run spoiled expectations, how the COVID-era 2020 produced the GOAT Thanksgiving shill with 69% gains, and why dollar cost averaging is the only advice worth giv…

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CleanSpark FY 2025 Recap: It's Not an AI Pivot, It's an Expansion w/ Matthew Schultz 52:05

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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, Matthew Schultz, CEO of CleanSpark, joins us to talk about CleanSpark'sfiscal year 2025 earnings. CleanSpark raked in $766M in revenue for the year, hit the 50 EH/s milestone, and has begun expanding into AI loads. Schultz share…

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Operation Red Sunset, the White House’s Genesis Mission, Tether Buys BTDR, RAM Prices Soar 35:33

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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 Charlie break down Operation Red Sunset—the US government's probe into Bitmain over national security concerns. We also cover brutal mining economics with hashprice at all-time lows, Trump's new executive order spurrin…

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Bitcoin Mining Isn't Dead w/ Steve Barbour 45:51

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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, Steve Barbour, CEO of Upstream Data, joins us for a bitcoin mining palate cleanser! We cover the current state of mining economics, his take on some of the new ASIC models coming to market, oil and gas markets, the infrastructur…

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Monad Launch w/ Keone Han & Kevin McCormick 59:22

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Keone Han and Kevin McCormick from Monad Foundation join us to talk about their upcoming mainnet launch on November 24th, why building quality infrastructure takes years not months, their unique Momentum grants program that prioritizes user acquisition costs and retention over vanity metrics like TVL, and how to maintain team focus when crypto Twit…

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Bitcoin Collapse: Here's Who's Bleeding In The Street 32:21

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Colin and Charlie break down the brutal November 2025 Bitcoin selloff. With BTC trading at $87K, the average ETF holder is now underwater, hash prices are at all-time lows, and treasury companies like MicroStrategy and Nokia are facing serious headwinds. We discuss whether this is just typical Bitcoin volatility or something more concerning, analyz…

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Nvidia’s Q3 Earnings, ERCOT Power Market Update, Cipher Lands $830M Fluidstack Expansion 43:16

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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, Haley Thomson, the director of energy trading at Luxor Technology, joins us to talk about how AI demand is impacting the ERCOT power market. For news, we break down Nvidia's Q3 earnings and the market's Thursday morning reversal…

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The 2025 Hashies: Introducing Blockspace’s Annual Awards Show 37:18

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Getting To The Bottom Of Quantum w/ Rearden 1:14:30

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Bitcoin Mining Stock Vibe Rankings: 2025 Year-End Edition 1:21:32

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Our Top Stories From 2025 50:24

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2025: The Year of the Bitcoin ETF w/ Jean-Marie Mognetti 31:57

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How Lighter ate away Hyperliquid’s moat 1:01:52

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Quantum's $100 Billion Threat To Bitcoin 46:36

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China Mining Crackdown, Hut 8’s $7B Fluidstack Deal, CoreWeave Site Delays 43:42

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Coinbase Asset Management is Quietly Driving Bitcoin's Hashrate Growth w/ Doug Wilson 34:59

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China Mining Ban 2.0? Inside CCP Sweep of Xinjiang's Bitcoin Mines / w Nick Hansen 23:53

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Inside the $220M Bitcoin Infrastructure SPAC w/ Ryan Gentry 42:08

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The Hidden Cost of Zero-Fee DEX's 49:55

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ERCOT’s 266 GW Surge, IREN’s $2.3B Raise, GPUs Eat ASICs, Whatsminer M70 Launch 41:44

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This New Bitcoin Proposal Would Steal Your Bitcoin 40:14

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Kevin O’Leary: 50% of AI Builds Will Fail 32:44

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Why The 2025 Bitcoin Bull Run Failed Us 28:45

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ABTC Investor Unlock, IREN’s $3.6B Capital Raise, Greenidge’s Fire and Land Sale 31:22

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The Conspiracy Was True: Operation Chokepoint 2.0 27:36

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Zcash Resurgence, Privacy, and Quantum w/ Zcash cofounder Ian Miers 1:09:23

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Bitcoin Ruined Your Thanksgiving (Here's What To Do) 26:09

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CleanSpark FY 2025 Recap: It's Not an AI Pivot, It's an Expansion w/ Matthew Schultz 52:05

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Operation Red Sunset, the White House’s Genesis Mission, Tether Buys BTDR, RAM Prices Soar 35:33

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Bitcoin Mining Isn't Dead w/ Steve Barbour 45:51

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Monad Launch w/ Keone Han & Kevin McCormick 59:22

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Bitcoin Collapse: Here's Who's Bleeding In The Street 32:21

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Nvidia’s Q3 Earnings, ERCOT Power Market Update, Cipher Lands $830M Fluidstack Expansion 43:16