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Blockspace: Bitcoin is Already Quantum Resistant?! Plus, Inside Iran’s $3B BTC Economy, and U.S. States Are Banning AI Data Centers

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🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A new proposal for Bitcoin Quantum Computing resistance dropped this week, and we have an update on state-by-state data center moratoriums. 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 Block Space Live! Today, Luxor’s Kaan Farahani Luxor and MIT DCI Director Neha Narula join us to respectively discuss  the wild volatility of Bitcoin mining in Q1 and the question of Bitcoin’s quantum resistance. For news, explore a new stop-gap quantum-safe transaction fix that avoids soft forks, map out the states placing moratoriums on AI data center builds, and discuss the geopolitical shift of Iran accepting bitcoin for oil export tolls. We also break down reports of a buyer interest in Gemini’s defunct UK and European business arms and Nakamoto’s reverse stock split. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * New quantum proposal costs ~$200 per transaction * Compute time takes roughly 6 hours * March difficulty drop ranked 10th at 7.76% * February saw 11.16% difficulty drop * Maine bans data centers >20MW until 2027 * Buyer interested in Gemini’s shuttered UK/EU exchange businesses  *NAKA seeks 1-for-20 or 1-for-50 reverse stock split Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:42 Hashrate Index Update 05:04 Quantum proposal-palooza 15:54 Kaan Farahani 32:42 Neha Narula 48:39 Datacenter Bans 1:02:25 Gemini 1:06:59 NAKA scramble to remain on Nasdaq 1:13:59 Iran & Bitcoin 👉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

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on, y'all?

0:06.1

Welcome back to Blockspace Live.

0:08.4

We are here to cap off another tumultuous week in crypto and Bitcoin.

0:13.0

And we will start off with a new quantum computing resistance proposal for Bitcoin that we can implement without a soft fork, but it's going to

0:21.5

cost you a couple hundred bucks a pop to migrate your coins to a quantum vulnerable or quantum

0:27.0

invulnerable wallet. We also have Luxor's Khan Farahani joining us to discuss Bitcoin mining in

0:33.9

March and looking back at the most volatile quarter for Bitcoin mining since the

0:38.9

China mining ban in Q1. Following Khan, we have Neha, Nerula of MIT Media Lab on to talk about

0:46.2

what else, but quantum resistance in Bitcoin. The only thing anyone seems to care about right now,

0:51.9

we are going to lean in hard. And for news stories today, we have the Gemini Exchange reportedly looking for a buyer

0:59.1

for its now defunct businesses in the UK and the EU.

1:04.6

And Nakamoto is trying to do a reverse stock split, a pretty hefty one,

1:09.9

as its stock price languishes under a dollar,

1:12.9

and it attempts to evade a NASDAQ D listing.

1:15.9

And finally, we also have a data moratorium map, and we're going to show you the states that want to impede data center

1:24.9

progress and the ones that want to speed run digital surfdom.

1:28.1

And we'll close with a little bit of a note on Iran.

1:30.7

If you were confused as to why Iran would accept Bitcoin for oil tolls, we've got some answers at the end of the show.

1:38.3

Block space goes live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at noon Eastern featuring quick hits in the latest in Bitcoin,

1:45.6

mining AI and emerging tech.

1:48.1

Make sure to like and subscribe if you're on YouTube at the notification button.

1:52.8

This is also a podcast shortly after we wrap up here.

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