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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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.
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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!
50 min
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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
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Ep35: Investing in Bitcoin Season 2 | Tyler Eva...
How do you invest in "Bitcoin Season 2"? We have Tyler Evans with UTXO Management talking about the new landscape of Bitcoin venture opportunities.
48 min
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Ep34: Restaking Comes to Bitcoin w/ Luke Xie | ...
Luke Xie explains how restaking works on SatLayer. Does Bitcoin provide unique security guarantees that other Proof of Stake systems need?
4 min
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Ep33: VCs are pivoting to Bitcoin!
Web3 venture capital has neglected Bitcoin for the past half decade, but it looks like that might finally be changing.
21 min
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Ep32: Fractal Bitcoin is coming
Fractal Bitcoin is the hottest new merge-mined sidechain from Unisat founder, Lorenzo
47 min
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Ep31: Metaprotocol Madness!
23 min
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Ep30: Fixing Proof of Stake with Babylon protocol
David Tse explains how Babylon protocol leverages the asset of Bitcoin to improve shortcomings in Proof of Stake systems
36 min
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Ep29: The Dawn of Bitcoin MEV
MEV on Bitcoin looks much bigger (and different) than simple Ordinals sniping. Charlie discusses with Devin from Rebar Labs
45 min
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Ep28: The Rise of BitcoinFi
"BitcoinFi" is taking over the timeline! What is OPNET/Fractal/Bitcoin Staking/Arch/etc?
26 min
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Ep27: How Udi Started The Taproot Wizards
Udi tells how the Taproot Wizards got their start, where they are going, and why even try to jumpstart Bitcoin culture at all.
40 min
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Ep26: Making Bitcoin FUN! w/ Parker Day & Casey...
Parker Day’s FUN! Collection is first her project on Bitcoin with Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor
24 min
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Ep25: The Business Behind the Biggest Bitcoin t...
OrdinalsBot cofounders describe what they're working on -- from artist partnerships to launching an Ordinals & Runes marketplace.
29 min
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Ep24: Ordinals are Mainstream Now
Ordinals are Mainstream & someone sophisticated is affecting ordinals collection prices.
29 min
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Ep23: Builders vs Leverage
$20 million in leverage ordinals defaulted! Yet builders continue through the bear market.
19 min
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Ep22: Miner Capitulation & UNCOMMON GOODS
Bitcoin miners are capitulating.... or are they? Also, a new fee dynamic emerges that sets a new baseline for fees on Bitcoin!
19 min
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Ep21: Bitcoin L2 Roadmaps
Where are the current Bitcoin L2 projects in their respective roadmaps?
16 min
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Ep20: The Future of Fees
Leo Zhang, discusses fees & the commoditization of Bitcoin blockspace
36 min
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Ep19: Bitcoin is Dead, Everything is Dead
Bitcoin, Ordinals, and Runes are crashing. MtGox payout fear?
23 min
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Ep18: Fighting Back Against Election Fraud wit...
How Bitcoin Proved Guatemala's Election Wasn't Rigged
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