Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin

Blockspace: AI & Bitcoin

Bitcoin conversations from the deep end, covering markets, tech, compute, and culture from hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper. Three episodes per week, on all podcast players, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk and more. Drop us a listen and review!

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How the US Plans to Fast Track Data Centers, STRC Depegs from $100, Hive Signs $220M AI Deal

June 18, 2026 • 78 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has finalized new guidance aimed at fast tracking data centers across the U.S.. The rules aren’t set-in-stone or enforceable yet, but the new guidance is the most signific...
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Applied’s $1.59B Raise, Illinois’s Bitcoin Transaction Tax, Why SaaS Bonds May Be in Trouble

June 17, 2026 • 48 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Applied Digital just closed a $1.59 billion senior secured note round to fund a 150 MW expansion at its Polaris Forge 1 site for CoreWeave. Plus, we welcome Tim Neimeyer, the president of the Illinois Bitcoin Cou...
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SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B, Nvidia Closes $25B Debt Raise, Cipher Hires Former ERCOT Director

June 16, 2026 • 61 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! SpaceX (SPCX) just won’t stop. The stock is up 50% from its IPO price, and it also just acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction. For other news, Nvidia just closed a $25 bill...
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Why Anthropic Axed Mythos/Fable 5, IREN Seals 490MW Nostrum Acquisition, EPA Won’t Regulate Data Centers

June 15, 2026 • 59 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Anthropic and Uncle Sam are trading blows again, with the frontier LLM company pulling its recently released Mythos / Fable 5 model after whistleblowers said the model’s guardrails were bypassed. Lygos Finance’s ...
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Inside TeraWulf's Lake Mariner Data Center Construction: "They're Working Around the Clock"

June 14, 2026 • 29 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For today's bonus show, we have an interview with Rich Miller, the founder of Data Center Richness and a seasoned data center journalist with decades of experience under his belt. Miller shares his views on how m...
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SpaceX’s $2T IPO by the Numbers and Anthropic’s 1 GW Search for Capacity

June 12, 2026 • 73 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! SpaceX’s historic IPO came and went today, marking a day of firsts that saw the company close the largest IPO ever at a $2 trillion valuation, making its founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Nakamoto...
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Retail Piles into SpaceX IPO, Inside TeraWulf’s Lake Mariner AI Site, CoreWeave’s $3.5B Unsecured Note

June 11, 2026 • 71 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Retail investors alone have accounted for roughly $75 billion of SpaceX’s IPO round – an amount that SpaceX originally intended to raise before the round became 3x oversubscribed. Plus, for today’s interview, Ric...
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SpaceX’s $250B IPO Raise, KEEL’s $458M Convertible Note, Hut 8’s $4.25 Senior Note, OpenAI’s 10 GW Datacenter

June 10, 2026 • 68 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Reuters has reported that SpaceX’s IPO round could come in at $250 billion, a 3x oversubscription from the company’s planned $75 billion. Plus, Cormint CEO Jamie McAvity joins us to give an optimistic outlook on ...
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What Investors Miss About SpaceX’s IPO, Cipher’s $810M Riase for AWS Site, Applied Digital’s 210 MW AI Deal

June 9, 2026 • 58 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Markets are bleeding, and AI/semiconductor stocks are taking the brunt of the bloodletting, so we open today’s show with a quick stock update from emerging AI factories like $HUT, $IREN, and $KEEL. Plus, we cover...
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CIFR & KEEL rip, SpaceX IPO, and Saylor didn’t sell

June 8, 2026 • 62 mins
Francis Corvinho of Lygos Finance and Kaan of Luxor join us to talk about the massive shift in Bitcoin mining economics, Michael Saylor's credit strategies, Zcash protocol bugs, and the Texas 4CP summer mining curtailments. We also break down the AI in...
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SpaceX IPO, Ohio's data center woes, Sphere3D goes public, and Bitcoin Volatility

June 4, 2026 • 58 mins
Today, we review SpaceX’s prospectus on rockets and interplanetary life extraterrestrial data centers. Plus, IREN gets a nod from B Riley and Hut 8 is raising a lot of cash for its Beacon Point facility.
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IREN's 800MW in Australia, Zcash bug, and Google upscales to $84b

June 3, 2026 • 53 mins
Janusz, former engineer at Electric Coin Company, joins us to talk about a potential Zcash soundness bug and the trade-offs of privacy versus auditability. Plus, Charlie and Will dive into Michael Saylor's STRC asset crash, IREN’s massive 800MW data ce...
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$GOOG is Raising $80B for AI, Polymarket’s MSTR Debacle, Swan Dismisses Proton Lawsuit

June 2, 2026 • 48 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Bitcoin miner-turned AI stocks are ripping this week, led by $KEEL, $HUT, $HIVE, and $BTDR. We break down the moves in the sector and take a look at Berkshire Hathaway adding $10B to its $GOOG stake as the mag 7 ...
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Anthropic's IPO, IREN’s $3.65B GPU Financing, Strategy Sells BTC, DMG’s 50 MW AI Data Center

June 1, 2026 • 76 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Anthropic has filed for an IPO as the public markets race for frontier AI companies heats up. Plus, Strategy just sold bitcoin for the first time since 2022, and Lygos’ Francis Corvino joins to give his take on w...
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Semiconductor Smugglers, Google’s 200 MW Solar Deal, Iran War’s Energy Market Impact, Debunking Data Center Water Myths

May 29, 2026 • 74 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today for our lead story, we cover the latest Nvidia chip smuggling crackdowns in Taiwan, and then we hop into an interview with Udi Wertheimer of Taproot Wizards to discuss the current state of Ethereum, and why...
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Robinhood Opens AI Trading, IREN’s $1.6B GPU Buy, Hut 8 CEO Beacon Point Update

May 28, 2026 • 62 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8 joins us to talk about the company’s $9.8 billion deal for its Beacon Point AI data center in Texas. For news, we cover Robinhood launching access for AI trading agents, IREN’s $...
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Pope Leo Calls AI the Tower of Babel, China is Funding Anti-AI FUD, TeraWulf’s 1 GW KY Data Center

May 26, 2026 • 61 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For our top story today, Pope Leo’s latest encyclical – in which Leo likens AI to a modern, cyber Tower of Babel – gives us the Catholic Church’s official stance on AI. For interviews, Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel...
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SpaceX’s $2T IPO, FBI Scams the Scammers, Trump Media Sells Bitcoin

May 22, 2026 • 79 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover SpaceX’s highly anticipated IPO, which could value the company at $1.75-2 trillion and become the biggest IPO ever. Plus, how the FBI spun up a scam token to arrest pump and dumpers, and is Trump ...
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Prime Bankruptcy Trust Sues Strike Parent Co for $150M, NAKA’s Reverse Stock Split, SEC Tokenized Stock Framework

May 21, 2026 • 81 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover the latest in the Prime Trust bankruptcy saga, as the bankruptcy trust from Prime is suing Zap Solutions (Strike’s parent company) for nearly $150M in clawbacks. We also welcome Kush Bavaria of Or...
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Iran’s Hormuz Safe BTC Insurance, Prime Trust’s Swan Lawsuit, Hive’s 320 MW AI Data Center

May 18, 2026 • 68 mins
Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, we cover the bombshell news that Iran is now accepting bitcoin for maritime insurance for tankers trapped in the Strait of Hormuz. Francis Corvino of Lygos Finance joins us to talk about why he believes th...
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