Blockspace: Ark Labs Raises $5.2M, CleanSpark on BTC Price, Luxor's Mining Outlook, and the IRS New Crypto Form

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🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In this week’s news, we hit Ark Labs raising from Tether, CleanSpark and Two Primes’ take on Bitcoin price action, and how the IRS is trying to get more info about your digital asset stack. 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 Blockspace! Today, Alex B, Ecosystem Lead at Ark Labs joins us to talk about their massive $5.2M raise led by Tether and the push for programmable finance on Bitcoin. We also sit down with Rory Murray of CleanSpark and Alex Bloom of Two Prime to discuss the "beach ball" state of the market and how institutional lenders are navigating high volatility. Finally, we expose the IRS’s new 1099-DA form "perjury trap" and settle the debate on when the 20 millionth Bitcoin was actually mined. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * Ark Labs raised a $5.2M seed round led by Tether. * Bitcoin rose 10% in five days, hitting $74,000. * US stock market lost $1 trillion in a single day. * Hash price sits near an all-time low of $27. * The 20,000,000th Bitcoin was mined this week. * IRS Form 1099-DA is labeled a "perjury trap." Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:55 Bitcoin price action 04:29 Hashrate Index update by Luxor 08:58 Ark Labs seed round 30:43 CLSK & Two Prime 46:50 Luxor & ASIC prices 1:00:33 IRS trap 1:07:45 Binance & CZ 1:19:39 Cry Corner: 20M BTC Mined 👉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

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Blockspace Live show.
0:08.6	This goes live now Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon Eastern.
0:14.0	So if you're in New York, you can watch this while you eat lunch.
0:16.9	And if you're on the West Coast, you don't have a real job, so you're probably going to brunch on a Friday.
0:23.2	So we got a banger lineup today.
0:27.3	There's a lot of, we have a lot of guests, a very packed guest lineup.
0:30.8	We are kicking it off with Alex from Arc Labs on their massive rays, led by Tether.
0:36.8	We got some gigabrains over at Clean Spark and 2 Prime.
0:39.9	I'm talking about minor financing.
0:41.8	The IRS is trying to catch you with your pants down.
0:43.8	They're trying to lure you into giving away a little bit too much info.
0:49.3	And then also, everyone else got the 20 million Bitcoin rollover story wrong.
0:56.8	We were the few that actually caught it on the actual time that we hit 20 million Bitcoin.
1:02.5	And then, of course, we got Luxor in the house towards the end talking about how bad the
1:07.4	basic market is, but also how interesting it is.
1:10.1	So Colin, welcome to the show.
1:13.0	Thank you, Charlie.
1:13.8	We also have Binance's Big Week, CZ leapfrogging one of the most infamous tech billionaires,
1:23.5	and also Binance going after Wall Street Journal for allegedly fake news.
1:28.1	We're going to get into the, well, he said she said for that.
1:32.3	But yeah, but CZ Moggs on Bill Gates is the, is the lead.
1:37.2	I want to say that shout to the Clean Spark.
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