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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Ep61: Bitcoin is at a custodianship crossroads ...
Hyperbitcoinization is more than just the price going up, it's about Bitcoin being the basis for every transaction in the world *and* it means a vibrant on-chain ecosystem.
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Ep60: You should be paying attention to this Bi...
"What do Bitcoin devs think about X?" is the most popular question right now in the soft fork discussion. How do we measure who supports what?
24 min
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Ep59: Is Bitcoin doomed to follow the same path...
Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp talks about Bitcoin consensus, ossification, and how he hopes Bitcoin does not follow the same path the email (SMTP) protocol has
59 min
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Ep58: Sneaky Bitcoin Scaling!
While everyone's arguing about soft forks like OP_CAT, several researchers have proposed sneaky workarounds which are able to emulate certain covenants *without a soft fork*.
21 min
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Ep57: Investing in Bitcoin's future $100b asset...
FarmerJoe is an unlikely DeFi yield farmer who found himself investing in all things Bitcoin Season 2 *and* becoming an accidental $PUPS memecoin founder.
54 min
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Ep55: AI agents in the 2025 crypto cycle w/ Boo...
AI models are now everywhere in crypto, and you've probably already interacted with one that Bootoshi built!
53 min
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Ep54: Bitcoin's Mexican Standoff 🔫🔫
James O'Bierne just dropped a SPICY twitter thread "The Consensus Conundrum" which basically says Bitcoin has a leadership problem.
55 min
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Ep53: Memecoins thrive on a dying dollar w/ Mur...
Murad outlays his thesis for why the next year will be historic for memecoins, and how the best memecoins will look more like quasi-religions, movements, than speculation.
51 min
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Ep52: Superpower Bitcoin with Covenants | Mihae...
Mihael Å inkec from sCrypt talks about how enabling covenants on Bitcoin superpower the chain, unlocking "platform" and computer-like characteristics.
25 min
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Ep51: $250k Bitcoin NFT given away on Minecraft???
Ordinals Creator Casey Rodarmor just gave away his first every ordinals inscription to a random Minecraft player!
19 min
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Ep50: Who actually decides if Bitcoin soft fork...
How does Bitcoin's "governance" work? Trick question: there IS no governance!
60 min
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Ep49: OP_CAT is bad, filters are useless, and M...
There aren't that many good critics of OP_CAT left, so we asked Post Capone to provide his perspective.
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Ep48: The Laser Eye to Degen Spectrum
There's no longer a dominant Bitcoin culture, so who are the big names in Bitcoin and where do they fall along the Laser Eye x Degen spectrum?
70 min
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Ep47: Not even Bitcoin is safe from AI tokens
AI tokens have hit every blockchain and now they're on Bitcoin too. Also: Casey breaks Ord
18 min
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Ep46: Solving Sniping with MagicEden
Stephen & Matthew from MagicEden explain how the platform combines cutting edge tech w/ intuitive product design.
48 min
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Ep45: Superpowering Bitcoin with Ark | Alex B
Alex B of Ark Labs explains how Ark can be considered a "UTXO renting service" and how an Ark can superpower everything Bitcoin already does and more
55 min
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Ep44: Bitcoin PIPEs: Do Everything On Bitcoin W...
We get super technical with Misha Komarov about Bitcoin PIPEs -- a proposed scheme to emulate opcodes like OP_CAT (and therefore covenants) without a soft fork.
52 min
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Ep43: Memecoins & Mempools
Blockchain explorer mempool.space adds Runes flags to transactions and some laser eyes don't like this, causing the ordinals community to donate to the project.
21 min
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Ep 42: Memecoins Up (Nonbelievers Down) and Swa...
For this week's Writer's Room, Charlie and Colin talk about the comeback of memecoins (and why the mania will probably not come to bitcoin) and Swan Bitcoin's mining lawsuit.
43 min
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Ep41: Did you survive the Ordinals Bear Market?
Alkimiya, recovering ordinals prices, and ord 0.20.1 is out!
23 min
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Ep40: Doing Everything *on* Bitcoin L1 | Chad w...
Chad Masterson riffs with Charlie about the long and storied history of ordinals metaprotocols, token schemes, and how the OPNET team is shipping an indexer-side smart contract system *without a token*.
44 min
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Ep39: Finding an Ordinals Trading Edge w/ TheHawk
We sit down with Ordinals trader TheHawk at the Ord Summit in Singapore and talk about ordinals trading strategies. How should loans strategies like Liquidium be utilized?
32 min
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Ep38: Building a Global State Machine w/ Arch N...
Matt gets into the weeds of how Arch handles state transitions on Bitcoin, how FROST/ROAST works, and what the actual user unlock of Arch would look like.
23 min
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Ep37: F*ck it we Fractal now | Writer's Room
Charlie & Colin brought you the first coverage on Fractal Bitcoin, now we're going to bring you the FUD!
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Ep36: "The Ordinals Ecosystem Mines Bitcoin"
Fractal Bitcoin, BitAxes, Ordinals the Mine BTC, Decentralizing Mining. Everywhere you look there is something happening in Ordinals around Bitcoin mining right now.
23 min