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Blockspace: Finding Satoshi Documentary, Justin Sun Sues World Liberty Financial, CORZ Opens $3.3B Raise

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A new documentary claims to have solved the case of Satoshi’ identity, and Justin Sun is bringing World Liberty Financial to court. Welcome back to Block Space Live! Today, William Cohan and Tyler Maroney of the Finding Satoshi documentary join us to talk about their years-long search for Bitcoin’s creator. We also dive into the wild crypto extortion scheme that scammers are waging against unwitting tanker crews in the Strait of Hormuz, and we break down the explosive  lawsuit between Justin Sun and the Trump-linked World Liberty Financial. Plus, Core Scientific’s massive $3.3 billion raise, and how Bitget and Republic are bringing SpaceX investment to crypto rails before Musk’s company even goes public.  Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: • Core Scientific to raise $3.3 billion via senior notes. • Justin Sun's $45M WLFI investment allegedly worth $766M before it was frozen. • Hormuz toll trolls: scammers trick Indian oil tanker crew into paying fake crypto toll • Reuters: 20,000 seafarers currently in the Gulf. • Finding Satoshi documentary 6 years in the making • Bitget, Republic partner to list “mirror token” for pre-IPO SpaceX stock Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:22 Softwar Thesis is back baby! 09:16 Hormuz crypto scam 15:57 Justin Sun Sues WLFI 24:11 Finding Satoshi 41:44 CORZ $3.3B note 48:11 Bitget SpaceX IPO 👉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

What is going on, y'all? Welcome back to Blockspace Live coming at y'all fresh on this Wednesday morning or afternoon, if you're joining us from ET.

0:14.5

Bitcoin mining is apparently super important for national security, so much so that a four-star admiral is saying, quote,

0:21.6

Bitcoin shows incredible potential, end quote, as a tool for U.S. national security, as the

0:26.2

soft war thesis is back in the new cycle. It still doesn't make any sense to us, but we'll be

0:32.4

unpacking that first as our lead story. And then we will get into the fact that crypto scammers are now getting

0:38.9

involved with geopolitical events. And they are extorting tankers sitting in the strait of Hormuz,

0:44.3

having them pay crypto, thinking that they're sending it to the Iranian regime. But in fact,

0:49.1

they're actually just getting rinsed. They're getting rug pulled as is, you know, tradition in this wonderful,

0:55.6

wonderful industry of ours. We've also got a story on Justin's son suing World Liberty Financial

1:01.5

as a verbal battle waltzes into the courtroom. And for today's interview, we have the folks

1:08.3

at the Finding Satoshi documentary. They may not tell us who

1:11.5

they think Satoshi is, but they will tell us potentially who it definitely isn't and give us an

1:16.1

idea of what went into this year's long documentary in search of the creator of Bitcoin.

1:21.3

And for our final stories today, Core Scientific is raising $3.3 billion, refinancing some old notes.

1:29.3

And BitGit in partnership with Republic is launching pre-IPO SpaceX.

1:36.2

But it's not quite equity.

1:38.5

It is a token, though.

1:39.8

More on that later.

1:41.4

Blockspace goes live on Monday, Wednesday, Friday at noon Eastern, featuring quick hits

1:46.2

on the latest in Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin, AI, and emerging tech.

1:51.5

Make sure to like and subscribe, hit the bell if you're on YouTube, so you get push notifications.

1:57.1

This turns into a podcast after we wrap up every day.

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