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The Blockspace Podcast

Blockspace Media

Conversations about Bitcoin covering markets, tech, compute, and culture from hosts Charlie Spears and Colin Harper. Listen for weekly shows covering everything from deep Bitcoin mining to the conversation of the week in Bitcoin. We talk with the executives, operators, deal makers, financers and builders making the digital frontier happen. Available on all podcast players, YouTube and on syndication platforms like Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk and more! Be sure to subscribe and give us a five star

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28:39

What You Didn’t Know About Wrapped Bitcoin

The Blockspace Podcast ·

2025/02/15

Matt Luongo from Thesis helps us “wrap” our heads around what it means to take your bitcoin cross-chain. What are the trust assumptions? What are the differences between different wrapped Bitcoin products? Is there any “funny business” going on? Notes: • New users are coming to ETFs • Microstrategy vs cross-chain Bitcoin • TVL mirroring • BitGo’s Wrapped Bitcoin vs other wrapped Bitcoin Check out our Bitcoin scaling conference! Visit opnext.dev to learn more. - 👉 Brought to you by Arch

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47:22

Operation Chokepoint 2.0 Gets Choked Out

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2025/02/12

It’s now openly acknowledged that the crypto industry has been targeted for years by the previous administration’s Operation Chokepoint 2.0 scheme. Charlie & Colin discuss how last week’s hearing saw Senators Warren & Scott addressed the matter before the House Financial Services Committee. We explain how we got here and where we might go as an industry.Notes: • History of regulatory scrutiny • FTX Fallout • Operation Chokepoint 2.0 Hearing • Elizabeth Warren changes tune Check out our Bitcoin

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37:37

Are We Winning Yet?

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2025/02/08

Welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2! For this week's Writer's Room, Colin and Charlie cover the release of Tornado Cash co-founder Alexey Pertsev from prison. They also dive into recent policy talking points from Trump's Crypto Czar, David Sacks, including why stablecoin regulation could become a pillar of this administration's crypto approach (and what that means for dollar dominance). Plus, what Trump's executive order for a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund means for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.- Follow

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21:43

Trade War Bullish for Bitcoin?

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2025/02/04

After a crypto dump some are comparing to the COVID crash, Bitcoin dominance has skyrocketed. Is this the new normal? Bitwise's Jeff Park says the trade war may kick off a series of events that is actually good for Bitcoin,- Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!

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43:30

You're not bullish enough on rare satoshis

The Blockspace Podcast ·

2025/01/29

Quary, founder of Magisat, discusses the growing market for rare sats, unique satoshis with historical, aesthetic, or numerical significance. How does ordinal theory assign identities to satoshis? What are the technical challenges of procuring rare sats?Despite current liquidity & market drawdown, Quary argues that rare sats represent an authentic, grifter-resistant asset class, poised to gain value as Bitcoin adoption grows. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:09 How Quary Discovered Rare Sats 04:43 What

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14:49

Ordinals BLOODBATH & DeepSeek

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2025/01/28

The culling is happening -- Bitcoin assets like Runes & Ordinals are collapsing. Is this the end? Top Ordinals assets are down 30% - 60% over the past month and the total Runes market cap has fallen below $1 billion, again.An interesting phenomenon the past week has been the attention on Solana memecoins from the ordinals & Bitcoin maxi community. Unlikely as it may seem, "boomer" Bitcoiners are launching memecoins on Solana. - Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented

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48:05

The Story of the Silk Road

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2025/01/25

Ross Ulbricht is free, full pardon! But how did we get here & what actually was the Silk Road? Colin & Charlie dive in - Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodling Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!

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56:35

Trump Proves We're All Shitcoiners Now

The Blockspace Podcast ·

2025/01/21

For this emergency Writer's Room episode, Charlie and Colin talk Trump's inauguration speech, in which he doesn't mention Bitcoin (quelle suprise!); the $10 billion dollar elephant (or should we say "shitcoin"?) in the room, TRUMP coin; and Trump's myriad Bitcoin policy promises. - Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodling Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information

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50:17

Ep72: Ranking the BEST Bitcoin Reserves (Tierlist!)

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2025/01/18

There are now 7 states with Bitcoin reserve proposals! But they're not all the same, and it can be super confusing how each one works. Charlie & Colin explain & rank the Bitcoin reserves according to our (admittedly arbitrary) metrics!- Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodling Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech!

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43:03

Ep71: Save in Bitcoin, Spend in Dollars w/ Shezhan...

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2025/01/16

Loans on Bitcoin are better than loans on Ethereum. More private, more secure, and better "attestations" Dive into the world of DLCs, Discreet Log Contracts - an underexplored but powerful mechanism that Shezhan Marieda uses to power Lava Loans Follow our guest on Twitter: @MarediaShezhan Follow our host: @cbspears --- 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on Twitter and check out our newsletter for the best information

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12:20

Ep71: Runes do or DIE moment!

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2025/01/14

Runes are back down below $1 billion market cap and seem like they have lower to go. Is this the moment that Runes die?- Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals and tech! - Stream Bitcoin Season 2 everywhere 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1NQIkiC... 🎧 Apple:

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37:43

Ep70: Hal Finney's best quotes

The Blockspace Podcast ·

2025/01/10

Welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2!For today's Writer's Room, Colin and Charlie celebrate Running Bitcoin Day by picking through the Bitcoin Talk archives for a selection of Hal Finney's most prescient takes. Finney is famous for being the first person (after Satoshi) to run Bitcoin -- a claim to fame that involves receiving the first non-mining related transaction from Bitcoin's creator -- as well as being one of the earliest contributors to Bitcoin Core. Hal was highly active in Bitcoin's salad

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55:28

Ep69: Changing the game for Bitcoin custodians w/ Rob...

The Blockspace Podcast ·

2025/01/08

Most large custodians secure Bitcoin using multisig or MPC, but that tech hasn't really changed or upgraded for almost a decade. Anchorwatch founder Rob Hamilton explains how Miniscript levels up the custodian game and allows for better risk mitigation for the largest holders of Bitcoin. He also dives into Bitcoin script, soft forks, and getting Ethereum holders to burn their assets onto Bitcoin. Follow our guest on Twitter: @Rob1Ham Follow our host: @cbspears --- 👋Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly

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22:45

Ep68: Is your staked Bitcoin at risk?

The Blockspace Podcast ·

2025/01/07

Rumors are swirling of custodians & services rehypothecating Bitcoin for the various staking protocols which have popped up over the past year. Are these founded? What's the risk? Also, why is everyone using the same custodians in the first place? - Follow our hosts on X: @cbspears, @AsILayHodling Bitcoin Season 2 is proudly presented by Blockspace Media, Bitcoin’s first B2B publication in Bitcoin. Follow us on X and check out our newsletter for the best information in Bitcoin mining, Ordinals

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61:48

Ep67: How astrology forecasts Bitcoin in 2025 w/ Erin...

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2025/01/01

The Fourth Turning? That's the Uranus return cycle. Ray Dalio's 250 civilizational cycle? That's Pluto's return. Erin Redwing explains how Bitcoin astrology works & how "Girl pseudoscience" (astrology) is just as useful as "Boy pseudoscience" (economics). What is Bitcoin astrology & how it guides us through 2025 ✨ Follow our guest on Twitter: @realizingerin Follow our host: @cbspears --- Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Botanix! Botanix Labs is pioneering a new direction for DeFi with the

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54:06

Ep66: The Taproot Wizards Enter the Spellverse

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2024/12/24

The Taproot Wizards "are a new Bitcoin Cultural movement" that combines nerdy tech & fun experimentation. "Illusionist" OuterLumen joins Bitcoin Season 2 to talk about Spellverse, the Wizard's project to document & catalogue the universe of community submissions over the past 2 years.Follow our guest: @OuterLumen --- Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Botanix! Botanix Labs is pioneering a new direction for DeFi with the first EVM L2 running on Bitcoin that’s built to be forward secure,

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23:05

Ep65: Layers VS Saylors

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2024/12/23

The race is ON between who can attract more Bitcoin: Corporations or the on-chain Bitcoin economy. Bitcoin layers, staked & wrapped Bitcoin are growing fast -- but are they growing fast enough to beat Michael Saylor & Saylor copycats? We use BitcoinLayers.org to help us track things! - Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Botanix! Botanix Labs is pioneering a new direction for DeFi with the first EVM L2 running on Bitcoin that’s built to be forward secure, decentralized, and share gas fees

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45:53

Ep64: Are Big Blockers BACK? (+ Strategic Bitcoin...

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2024/12/21

We thought we won the Blocksize War in 2017 when Bitcoin Cash forked off -- but now it sounds like some Bitcoin developers are picking up the same talking points? Charlie & Colin dissect what's going on. - Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Botanix! Botanix Labs is pioneering a new direction for DeFi with the first EVM L2 running on Bitcoin that’s built to be forward secure, decentralized, and share gas fees generated by the network with users. See the future of DeFi from

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65:18

Ep63: Bitcoin Already Has a Solution to Quantum...

The Blockspace Podcast ·

2024/12/19

Most "Quantum FUD" you hear is probably BS. But there are some ways Bitcoin is vulnerable to quantum computers. Hunter Beast helps us understand what these threats look like and explains a solution. Follow our guest: @cryptoquick --- Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Botanix! Botanix Labs is pioneering a new direction for DeFi with the first EVM L2 running on Bitcoin that’s built to be forward secure, decentralized, and share gas fees generated by the network with users. See the future of

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24:54

Ep62: The Bitcoin eco is getting weird at $100k

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2024/12/18

Bitcoin is solidly over $100k but what in the world is happening in the "Bitcoin ecosystem"? Microstrategy has a premium but on-chain activity is dead? Ordinals are down in BTC terms, but they are UP in USD terms. Everything is upside-down, let's review the numbers! - Bitcoin Season 2 is brought to you by Botanix! Botanix Labs is pioneering a new direction for DeFi with the first EVM L2 running on Bitcoin that’s built to be forward secure, decentralized, and share gas fees generated by the

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