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We explore the edges of blockspace, from Ordinals to Layer 2s and back. Join host Charlie Spears for weekly interviews and livestreams on Bitcoin’s frontier.
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Through conversations with crypto’s brightest lights, Gwart embarks on a one-man crusade to find the real value of cryptocurrency. Once weekly episodes with guests. Pseudonymous, Gwart is a crypto-Twitter troll and thinkboi seeking answers to non-existent problems in blockchains. Follow along for the most colorful conversations in crypto.
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Epicenter brings you in-depth conversations about the technical, economic and social implications of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Every week, we interview business leaders, engineers academics and entrepreneurs, and bring you a diverse spectrum of opinions and points of view. Epicenter is hosted by Sebastien Couture, Brian Fabian Crain, Friederike Ernst, Meher Roy and Felix Lutsch. Since 2014, our episodes have been downloaded over 8 million times.
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With over 400 shows, The Mining Pod is the industry’s best resource for the latest news and strategies in Bitcoin mining. Trusted by over 3,000 subscribers, including mining executives, operators and fund managers –from JP Morgan to mining plebs. There's only 1 Mining Pod!
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What the Samourai Case Means for the Future of BTC Privacy
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Seth for Privacy, VP at Cake Wallet, joins us to discuss the ongoing Samurai Wallet legal case and its implications for Bitcoin privacy. Seth explains how the DOJ's prosecution of Samurai developers threatens the entire crypto privacy landscape, despite FinCEN's admission that self-custodial wallets shouldn't be regulated as money services. He brea…
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Check out our free report on forecasting Bitcoin’s hashrate! FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 16,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Welcome to The Mining Pod! Today, Will and Colin dissect Galaxy's report on the crypto lending market…
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What started as a technical proposal has exploded into community division, with accusations of "destroying Bitcoin" flying around. The hosts break down what OP_RETURN is, why some devs want to increase its size limit, and why others view it as enabling "spam" on the blockchain. At its core, this fight reveals deeper tensions about who controls Bitc…
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Ethereum Foundation: Humanity’s Shared World Computer - Hsiao-Wei Wang & Tomasz Stańczak
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As society evolves, so do its values and principles, but is that desirable for technology that seeks to build the most reliable, trustless and censorship resistant global settlement layer? Ever since the rise in popularity of Solana with its inflow of retail capital in a memecoin gold rush, Ethereum became even more criticized for sticking true to …
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The Token Premium Myth With Noah Goldberg
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Welcome to The Gwart Show! Today, Noah Goldberg of Theia Research, joins us to dive deep into the world of liquid token markets. Noah breaks down why the "token premium" is unsustainable, how his firm evaluates fundamental value in DeFi applications, and why the market structure creates perverse incentives. He explains why on-chain finance hasn't s…
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What started as a technical proposal has exploded into community division, with accusations of "destroying Bitcoin" flying around. The hosts break down what OP_RETURN is, why some devs want to increase its size limit, and why others view it as enabling "spam" on the blockchain. At its core, this fight reveals deeper tensions about who controls Bitc…
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GPU Financing Rough Patch, Antalpha’s $300M Valuation, Bitfarms Pauses ASIC Orders
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FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 16,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Bitcoin’s back above $100k and hashrate is rebounding above 900 EH/s with it. In this week's news roundup, Kelly Greer from Crucibl…
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Taiko: Scaling Ethereum in a Decentralised Manner - Joaquin Mendes
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Taiko is a decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent (type I) rollup scaling solution which uses ZK technology. Taiko's goal is to scale Ethereum efficiently while maintaining security and decentralization. Being a type I zkEVM, Taiko retains full Ethereum equivalence, which creates a seamless DevEx, although this comes at the expense of UX as slower proo…
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Bitcoin Tribalism turns on Core developers
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Udi Wertheimer, co-founder of the Taproot Wizards and famous Bitcoin provocateur, joins us to talk about the explosive OP_RETURN debate dividing the Bitcoin community. We dive deep into why Bitcoin Core developers are facing unprecedented backlash, how they've lost touch with newer Bitcoiners, and what Greg Maxwell's sudden reappearance signals abo…
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You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 15,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Masih Alavi, CEO of ViraMiner, joins us to discuss an overlooked mecca for bitcoin mining: Iran. He estimates that miners in the country operate with just 5 MW of legal, wh…
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Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today, Santisa @Tiza4ThePeople from Lucidity joins us to discuss market neutral strategies in DeFi. He breaks down how his fund extracts alpha from stablecoin pairs and incentive programs while maintaining a risk-neutral position. We dive into the sophistication behind monitoring protocols, identifying opportunities …
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Arizona has taken the lead in the race to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve, with two bills passing through the legislature and now awaiting the governor's signature. These bills would allow the state to hold and buy Bitcoin and other digital assets with up to 10% allocation. The hosts dissect the different approaches states are taking, from Te…
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Arizona has taken the lead in the race to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve, with two bills passing through the legislature and now awaiting the governor's signature. These bills would allow the state to hold and buy Bitcoin and other digital assets with up to 10% allocation. The hosts dissect the different approaches states are taking, from Te…
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Tether and Antalpha, Galaxy’s CoreWeave Expansion, OP_RETURN drama
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FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 15,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Welcome to The Mining Pod News Roundup! The gang breaks down Tether's latest foray into the bitcoin mining sector as it seeks a $25M stake in AntAlpha, Galaxy's Co…
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Author of "The Bitcoin Dollar" Mark Goodwin joins us to discuss how stablecoins may be the US government's strategy to maintain dollar hegemony by yoking Bitcoin to the dollar system. He explains how private stablecoin issuers must buy US treasuries, creating artificial dollar demand while enabling surveillance. Mark argues that while Bitcoin pumps…
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Mysten Labs: How Sui Leverages Move to Build the Composable Web3nternet - Adeniyi Abiodun
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Founded by former Meta Diem team members, Sui is a high-performance, layer-1 blockchain designed for horizontal scaling and low-latency transactions. It uses an object-centric data model and the Move programming language to enable transaction parallelization which can handle >200,000 txs/s. Sui’s goal is to combine the benefits of blockchains with …
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Bitcoin Mining Capital Markets and the AI Bottleneck w/ Christian Lopez
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FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE You're listening to The Mining Pod. Subscribe to the newsletter, trusted by over 15,000 Bitcoiners: https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Welcome to The Mining Pod! Today, Christian Lopez, Head of Digital Assets at Cohen and Company Capital Markets, joins us to break down Bitcoin mining's ever-shifti…
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Broken Energy Grid? Spain, Portugal Plunge Into Darkness
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We jump on the podcast to discuss Spain's and Portugal's historic blackout event, with over 10 GW of missing energy on the Iberia Peninsula. FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE: https://forms.gle/DFpR9MyhWo1NQ8T39Published twice weekly, "The Mining Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landsca…
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Haseeb and Gwart, Round II (With Tarun Chitra)
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Welcome back to the Gwart Show! We got Round II of the Crypto VC debate with Gwart and Haseeb. Are tokens actually worth anything? Do VCs provide real signal value? What's the right benchmark for success? The conversation gets spicy as they examine Dragonfly's portfolio performance, discuss whether tokens truly capture value, and question if early-…
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Charlie and Colin explain 5 things you probably didn’t know about Bitcoin. Satoshi's original Bitcoin client included a poker program. Did you know Bitcoin has an off-by-one error in Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment? We debunk the myth that the 21 million cap is mentioned in the whitepaper and explore three critical inflation bugs that threatened Bi…
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Maple Finance: On-Chain Institutional Yield & Lending Markets - Sidney Powell
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With an extensive experience in traditional money markets, Maple Finance was envisioned as an institutional capital marketplace which combines the transparency & capital efficiency of blockchains with the regulatory framework of TradFi. Unlike many DeFi protocols that require over-collateralized loans (e.g. Aave), Maple also specializes in under-co…
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A$2.7 Million Mining Heist, Tariffs For Miners and Top 5 Mining Historical Moments
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FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE Welcome to The Mining Pod! In this episode, the team discusses recent Bitcoin mining trends including a projected 8% difficulty decrease, fee revenue rebounding to 3.3% of block rewards, and major loans from Coinbase and Matrixport to miners amid ATM market hesitancy. They analyze the curious case of …
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Solving the Bitcoin Builder’s Dilemma with Arch Network
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Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, join us to talk about their recent $13M Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital. They explain how Arch differentiates itself from other Bitcoin L2s by enabling programmability on Bitcoin with their custom VM and FROST/ROAST threshold signature schemes. The founders discuss their approach to solving…
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2025 Bitcoin Hashrate Forecast w/ Valentin Rousseau
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FILL OUT THE MINING POD SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Valentin Rousseau (a.k.a as Muad Dib on X), a bitcoin mining researcher who's worked with Hash Labs and the University of Cambridge, joins us to discuss his Blockspace report on hashrate forecasting for 2025, 2026, and 2027. Valent…
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Are there too many crypto lobbyists in DC?
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Charlie and Colin dive into the growing presence of crypto lobbying in Washington, D.C., analyzing CoinDesk's coverage and the staggering $119 million spent by the industry in 2024. They contrast national lobbying orgs like the Bitcoin Policy Institute with state-level players like the Satoshi Action Fund, discussing their roles, motivations, and e…
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Haseeb and Gwart arguing while Tarun writes a research paper
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Welcome back to the Gwart Show! Today we have Haseeb Qureshi and Tarun Chitra about whether VC-funded tokens are vaporware or valuable investments. They tackle fundamental questions about crypto market structure, token valuation models, and the long-term economics of L1 blockchains. Is there a carrying capacity for tokens? Are smart contract platfo…
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Ranking Bitcoin Miners, Auradine’s $150M Raise, and Coinbase’s ‘Base’ Rugpull
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FILL OUT OUR SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE Who’s the top Bitcoin miner? We rank them in this week’s news roundup. Plus Auradine raises a ton of money to bring Bitcoin mining manufacturing stateside. Welcome to The Mining Pod! In this episode, the gang breaks down the latest in Bitcoin mining with their weekly hash price update, showing prices hovering ar…
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