CoinDesk Podcast Network

Will AI companies fight bitcoin miners for energy infrastructure?

Anthropic's multi-gigawatt compute deal with Google and Broadcom highlights how AI companies are now directly competing with bitcoin miners for the same energy infrastructure. Several major miners have already started converting capacity to AI hosting, but does this mean that bitcoin mining is dying? CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Matt Odell joins the show to discuss OpenSats’ 17th grant round, and Ben Carman also joins to explain why the Austin Bitdevs meetup is saying sayonara for now.

Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin.

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Matt Odell, Co-founder of OpenSats, joins us to talk about their 17th wave of grants and the importance of funding open-source Bitcoin privacy projects, and Spiral bitcoin developer Ben Carman hops on to explain why the longest running Bitdevs meetup is taking a break. We also dive into the $270M Drift Protocol exploit and the sophisticated social engineering tactics used by North Korean hackers. Plus, we cover Charles Schwab launching Bitcoin trading, the first investment bank rating for Keel Infrastructure (formerly Bitfarms), and how a solo miner secured a $250,000 block reward. 

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Notes:

- Drift Protocol lost $270M in a painstaking hack.

- OpenSats has distributed over $33M in grants from ~10,000 donors

- OpenSats grants ~$1M in Bitcoin every month.

- Solo miner earned $250,000 for a single block.

- Charles Schwab to offer spot BTC and ETH trading in H1 2026

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:32 Strait of Hormuz: A Citrini Field Trip

06:33 Drift Protocol (SOL) Hack

15:15 Matt Odell: OpenSats 7th wave of grants

32:45 Ben Carman: Austin BitDevs go bye bye

48:09 Bitfarms becomes Keel

54:38 Charles Schwab opens BTC trading

59:11 Solo miner wins block

👉CleanSpark

CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us to prosper in an ever-changing world.

👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool

Bitcoin mining revenue changes every day. Difficulty adjusts. Fees move. Prices shift. And that makes it hard to plan. Luxor Pool’s Fixed Payouts let miners lock in revenue at a guaranteed daily rate for up to 18 months. According to Hashrate Index, miners who used rolling fixed payout strategies since the last halving have outperformed FPPS mining by up to 15 percent. Fixed Payouts give you predictable daily revenue, so you can plan, budget, and grow with confidence. With Luxor, uncertainty is optional. Learn more at luxor.tech/mining

Why is Wall Street betting on crypto?

On this episode of CoinDesk’s Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, Jennifer Sanasie is joined by 250 Digital Asset Management CEO Chris Perkins to discuss his firm’s acquisition by Franklin Templeton. Superstate CEO Robert Leshner and Invesco’s Kathleen Wrynn break down their partnership, with Invesco becoming the investment manager of Superstate’s Short Duration US Government Securities Fund (USTB). Plus, NYSE Senior Market Strategist Michael Reinking unpacks the macro environment.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

00:32 Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI

02:09 Franklin Templeton Expands Crypto Push with Franklin Crypto

03:00 Institutional Moment Explained

06:23 Bitcoin Psychology and Volatility

10:12 Invesco Partners with Superstate, Now Managing $900M US Treasury Fund

12:53 DeFi Utility and Collateral

14:02 Investor Appetite for 24/7 Products

15:12 Is Blockchain Tech Ready for Trillions?

17:56 BTC ETFs Snap 4-Month Outflow Streak

20:38 Macro Outlook For Week Ahead

27:22 Bitcoin to $10K? Mike McGlone's Bearish Call Has a Catch

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

Polymarket faces political backlash over contract tied to rescuing U.S. soldiers in Iran.

Polymarket removed a betting market on the rescue of U.S. service members in Iran after lawmakers criticized it for reducing a military operation to a financial trade. Will this incident add to the pressure prediction markets face in Washington? CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

On today’s Blockspace Live, Alex Pruden joins us to discuss Google’s latest quantum computing paper, and we unpack MARA’s 15% headcount reduction.

Get your tickets to OPNEXT 2026 before prices increase! Join us on April 16 in NYC for technical discussions, investor talks, and intimate conversation with the brightest minds in Bitcoin.

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Alex Pruden (Project 11) joins us to discuss Google and Oratomic’s research papers on the risks quantum computing poses to Bitcoin. We discuss Mara’s recent 15% workforce reduction amid their strategic pivot toward AI. Jamie Gill (Luxor) hops on to break down Luxor’s new fleet management software, Commander. We also cover CleanSpark’s Moody’s rated bitcoin bond and Riot’s bitcoin selling in Q1.

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Notes:

• Mara laid off 15% of its workforce this week.

• Hash price is puttering around $30/PH/day.

• CleanSpark issues $100M bitcoin-bonds rated by Moody’s.

• 7 of the last 11 difficulty moves were negative.

• Quantum papers demonstrate hypothetical attacks on Bitcoin

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:43 Difficulty Report by Hashrate Index

08:40 MARA layoff

16:41 Jamie Gill, Luxor

32:50 Bitcoin backed bond

48:07 Alex Pruden, Project Eleven

1:18:13 RIOT sells BTC

👉CleanSpark

CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) is a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. We own a portfolio of power, land, and data centers across the United States powered by globally competitive energy prices. Sitting at the intersection of Bitcoin, energy, operational excellence and capital stewardship, we optimize our infrastructure to deliver superior returns to our shareholders. Monetizing low-cost, high reliability energy by producing a global emerging critical resource – compute – positions us to prosper in an ever-changing world.

👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool

Bitcoin mining revenue changes every day. Difficulty adjusts. Fees move. Prices shift. And that makes it hard to plan. Luxor Pool’s Fixed Payouts let miners lock in revenue at a guaranteed daily rate for up to 18 months. According to Hashrate Index, miners who used rolling fixed payout strategies since the last halving have outperformed FPPS mining by up to 15 percent. Fixed Payouts give you predictable daily revenue, so you can plan, budget, and grow with confidence. With Luxor, uncertainty is optional. Learn more at luxor.tech/mining