Blockspace: Hut 8 AI Update, Crypto-Backed Mortgages, MARA Sells $1.1B BTC

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🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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On today’s Blockspace Live, we have Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot and cover the big news that MARA sold $1.1B in BTC. 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, Hut 8 CEO Asher Genoot, Luxor Head of Financial Services Matt Williams, and Bitcoin Policy Institute Head of Government Affairs Ken Egan join us to respectively talk about the latest in Hut 8’s AI expansion, the regulatory battle over stablecoin rewards in the CLARITY Act, and Luxor’s new energy and financing offerings for AI operators. Plus, for news, we dive deep into why Marathon Digital is selling BTC to retire debt, how Coinbase and Better Homes and Finance secured a historic mortgage win with Fannie Mae-approved crypto-backed home loans, and why markets are backsliding going into the weekend. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * Next difficulty adjustment expected at +4.5%. * MARA sold 15,133 BTC ($1.1B) to retire $1B in debt. * Fannie Mae rubberstamps crypto-backed mortgages from Coinbase/Better Homes. * CLARITY Act nearing finish line Timestamps: 00:00 Start 01:19 Difficulty Report by Hashrate Index 04:58 CLARITY Act update 31:39 Asher Genoot, HUT8 44:49 Matt Williams, Luxor 1:01:07 MARA selling BTC 1:22:13 Market update = bad :( 👉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's going on, y'all? Welcome back to Blockspace Live, brought to you by Clean Spark.
0:09.7	Charlie Spears is out today. We've got longtime Blockspace and Mining Pod co-host Matt Kimmel on,
0:15.8	and we will be unpacking a lot of news today. There are some pretty sizzling headlines on the docket
0:23.7	today. We've got crypto mortgages busting out with Coinbase and Better Homes and Finance for the
0:28.8	first time ever approved by Fannie Mae. We've also got some really great interviews lined up
0:33.6	with Ken Egan of the Bitcoin Policy Institute to unpack the recent clarity news.
0:37.9	We've got Ashtrick and Newt, the CEO of HUDAID on to talk about their AI expansion.
0:42.1	We've also got Matt Williams on from Luxor to discuss GPU financing and energy markets within
0:48.1	their derivatives desk.
0:49.4	We also will close on a note about Mera selling Bitcoin to retire some of their convertible
0:56.1	note debt and a quick market update. A little pulse check, it's looking dicey out there.
1:03.3	But first, I'm going to have to throw it over to the long time, difficulty weatherman, Matt Kimmel,
1:09.2	to give us an update on what's going on with Bitcoin's hash rate.
1:13.1	Matt, give us the lowdown.
1:15.6	What's going on on the minpull?
1:18.6	Well, hash price is taking a dive alongside Bitcoin price today.
1:23.3	What we're looking at is a potential difficulty increased in the current environment,
1:32.2	but that might change as we're only about halfway through the epoch and the HatchPrice
1:38.5	environment is, as you could see on the chart here, Colin.
1:42.6	Changing quite rapidly throughout today,
1:45.2	it looks like we're just above the $31 per petahash per day level on the hash price.
1:53.7	And difficulty has been pretty volatile.
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