Blockspace: Coinbase and CLARITY, OP_NET Raises $5M, Blockfills Goes Bankrupt, Drukenmiller Fades BTC

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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On today’s Blockspace Live, we address reports alleging that Coinbase is meddling in the CLARITY Act and break down Blockfill’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 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, we dive into reports that Coinbase is allegedly lobbying against the de minimis tax exemption for BTC purchases in the CLARITY Act and the bitcoin miners caught up in the Blockfills bankruptcy. Plus, for today’s guests, Chad Masters and Danny Plainview, co-founders of OP_NET, join us to discuss their $5M raise and vision for Bitcoin-based smart contracts, and Hashlabs analysts Valentin Rousseau breaks down his latest report that scores which countries are the best for mining bitcoin. Plus, for this week’s cry corner, why Stanley Druckenmiller is fading bitcoin after supporting it as early as 2020. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * Bitcoin price hits $74k * Coinbase allegedly lobbying against BTC tax breaks. * OP_NET announced a $5 million fundraise. * Blockfills undergoes bankruptcy proceedings. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:19 Former UBER CEO comes out of stealth 06:17 COINBASE vs de minimus, TFTC??? 15:41 Is OPNET spam? 33:19 Best & Worst Places to Mine BTC 47:48 Blockfills files chapter 11 56:48 Druckenmiller dunks on 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

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Blockspace Live.
0:07.0	I'm Charlie and this is Conn.
0:08.0	We have a banger show for you today.
0:11.0	A big lineup of guests is Coinbase secretly fighting the de minimis tax in Washington.
0:19.0	We dive into this conspiracy.
0:20.0	It's TFTC versus Coinbase.
0:23.8	We also have a hot new meta protocol launch on Bitcoin Opnet.
0:27.1	We have both co-founders, Chad and Danny in the house in the second segment.
0:32.0	We've also got Val Rousseau going to talk about mining and hash rate projections last year.
0:36.7	He absolutely nailed it.
0:38.9	And we're talking about Blockfield's bankruptcy and Stanley Druckenmiller fades Bitcoin.
0:47.4	Blockspace Live is a show at Monday, Wednesday, Friday at noon Eastern. We feature quick hits on the latest in Bitcoin, mining,
0:55.3	AI, and emerging tech. Make sure to hit subscribe. If you're on YouTube, hit the bell to get
1:00.5	notified when we go live. This is a podcast as well. So find that anywhere podcasts are acquired.
1:07.8	And if you like what you hear, you'll love our newsletter, newsletter.com.
1:13.5	This show is brought to you by CleanSpark. Let's kick it off, Colin. So over the weekend,
1:21.1	a non-Bitcoin founder went viral. Travis Kalinick, formerly with Uber, had a hot interview on TBPN as his new
1:35.0	Adams company emerged from stealth. Did you catch this news? I caught some of the interview,
1:43.6	and he was kind of ranting about like if you're not
1:45.9	working hard enough, you need to be working harder.
1:48.0	Kind of typical rise and grind Silicon Valley entrepreneur slop, you know?
1:52.9	That being said, the company that we're about to feature here, maybe you can go ahead and
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