Best Blockspace Media Podcasts (2025)

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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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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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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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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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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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Bitdeer Q3 Recap: AI Plans, the Future of BTDR’s Bhutan Mining, and SEALMINER A4 Update w/ Harit Basit 32:34

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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, Haris Basit, CSO at Bitdeer, joins us to break down their Q3 results, where revenue hit $169.7M (up 173% YoY), self-mining production doubled to 1,109 BTC, and they achieved 41.2 EH/s of self-mining capacity. We dive deep into B…

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Bitcoin & Islamic Finance 45:22

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Allen Farrington and Harris Irfa explain their seminal paper "Bitcoin, Fiat and Islamic Finance." They dive into why Islamic banking is an oxymoron, how riba (interest/usury) connects to fractional reserve banking, and why Bitcoin naturally produces Islamic-compliant financial systems. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia…

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Why High Frequency Traders Are Leaving Wall Street 1:14:22

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Annanay Kapila, CEO & Founder of QFEX, joins us to talk about his journey from high-frequency trading at Flow Traders and Tower to building a revolutionary exchange platform. We discuss how crypto market structure solves traditional finance inefficiencies, his Y Combinator experience, regulatory strategy, 100X leverage mechanics, prediction markets…

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Did Jack Dorsey Fix The Bitcoin Merchant Problem? 26:30

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We break down Jack Dorsey's massive Bitcoin rollout across Cash App and Square—4M merchants can now accept BTC payments via Lightning and mainnet. We explore how Bitcoin rails are undercutting Visa/Amex fees, the Strike-style settlement strategy, and the controversial BIP 177 denomination debate. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.bloc…

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TeraWulf Q3 Recap: Future AI Deals, Capital Structure, and the Future of WULF’s BTC Mining 39:37

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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, Patrick Fleury, CFO of TeraWulf, joins us to talk about WULF’s Q3 where they booked their first AI revenue at $7.2 million, signed AI deals with FluidStack and Core42, and how they're balancing their debt structure. Patrick also…

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Bitcoin Mining Stock Prices Lose $20B, Bitdeer’s Data Center Fire, Auradine’s New Unit, Jim Cramer Yells at CRWV 59:23

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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, Will, Colin, and Matt don their butchers’ aprons to dissect Thursday’s market carnage, with some bitcoin miners down double digits on the day. We cover Bitdeer's electrical fire at a facility in Ohio, discuss Lava's controversia…

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The Perpification of Everything 1:07:00

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Kaledora Linn, Co-Founder at Ostium, joins us to talk about revolutionizing onchain trading by bringing traditional finance assets like stocks, commodities, and FX to DeFi through perpetual contracts. We explore why perps are superior to tokenization for trading, the evolution from single-asset to cross-asset platforms, how macro news drives modern…

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How Galaxy Digital Smashed Q3 Earnings Expectations w/ Jonathan Goldowsky 29:55

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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, Jonathan Goldowsky, Head of Investor Relations at Galaxy Digital, joins us to talk about Galaxy's record-breaking Q3 2025 with $505M in net income and $29.2B in revenue. We discuss the launch of Galaxy One, their new fintech pla…

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$120K Bitcoin Call, Stablecoins, and 2026 BTC Market w/ Galaxy Research Alex Thorn 43:12

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Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital, joins us to talk about why Galaxy revised their Bitcoin end-of-year target from $185K to $120K, the competitive headwinds from gold (up 57% vs Bitcoin's 12%), AI investments, and stablecoins, the October 10th leverage wipeout, Bitcoin's maturation into a lower-volatility asset, whale distribution patt…

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Unpacking MARA's AI Plans w/ CEO Fred Thiel 1:14:18

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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, Fred Thiel, CEO and Chairman of MARA (formerly Marathon Digital Holdings), joins us to talk about MARA's strategic pivot toward AI and HPC infrastructure, the critical importance of energy ownership over PPAs, inference at the e…

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The 7 Indicators Saying The Bull Market Isn't Over 22:35

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We dive deep into Coinglass's Bull Market Peak Indicators showing zero out of 30 signals flashing bear market warnings. Despite recent price drops and worst jobs data in 22 years, Bitcoin dominance sits at 59% (65% triggers peak warnings), Pi cycle top indicator remains green, and long-term holders absorbed $52.2B in sell pressure. Subscribe to the…

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

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

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Why The 2025 Bitcoin Bull Run Failed Us 28:45

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The Conspiracy Was True: Operation Chokepoint 2.0 27:36

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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

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Bitdeer Q3 Recap: AI Plans, the Future of BTDR’s Bhutan Mining, and SEALMINER A4 Update w/ Harit Basit 32:34

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Bitcoin & Islamic Finance 45:22

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Why High Frequency Traders Are Leaving Wall Street 1:14:22

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Did Jack Dorsey Fix The Bitcoin Merchant Problem? 26:30

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TeraWulf Q3 Recap: Future AI Deals, Capital Structure, and the Future of WULF’s BTC Mining 39:37

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Bitcoin Mining Stock Prices Lose $20B, Bitdeer’s Data Center Fire, Auradine’s New Unit, Jim Cramer Yells at CRWV 59:23

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The Perpification of Everything 1:07:00

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How Galaxy Digital Smashed Q3 Earnings Expectations w/ Jonathan Goldowsky 29:55

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$120K Bitcoin Call, Stablecoins, and 2026 BTC Market w/ Galaxy Research Alex Thorn 43:12

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Unpacking MARA's AI Plans w/ CEO Fred Thiel 1:14:18

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The 7 Indicators Saying The Bull Market Isn't Over 22:35

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