Blockspace: Iran Taxes Oil Tankers in BTC, Morgan Stanley Launches BTC ETF, the NYT Hunts for Satoshi

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

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Iran reportedly wants shipping companies to pay a toll in BTC to leave the Strait of Hormuz, and the NYT thinks it has cracked the case on Satoshi’s identity. 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, Antoine Poinsot of Chaincode Labs joins us to discuss how the Great Consensus Cleanup addresses poison block attacks (among many things), and Lygos Finance CEO Jay Patel gives a breakdown of the current state of private credit markets. For news, we cover Iran demanding bitcoin tolls for tankers to navigate the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran War’s two week ceasefire, Morgan Stanley becoming the first US bank to offer a Bitcoin ETF, and Bitdeer’s new ASIC. Plus, we take to task the New York Times' latest claim that Adam Back is Satoshi Nakamoto. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: - Iran demands $1 in BTC toll per oil barrel. - A supertanker toll would be $2 million in BTC. - Morgan Stanley ETF fees half of BlackRock's. - Oracle credit default swaps at 2008 levels. - Bitdeer launches SEALMINER A4, with hydro model at sub 10 J/TH Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:33 Antoine Poinsot: Poison blocks demo 15:47 Iran wants Bitcoin 34:18 Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF 42:16 Jay Patel 1:03:06 Bitdeer ASIC 1:15:10 NYT thinks Adam Back is Satoshi 👉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 up, y'all?
0:05.9	Welcome back to Blockspace Live, brought to you by CleanSpark.
0:10.0	Iran wants your Bitcoin.
0:12.3	Well, they don't want your Bitcoin, but they do want the Bitcoin of shipping companies that are trying to navigate the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week ceasefire that was announced last night.
0:22.9	That will be our lead story today.
0:25.4	One of the stranger ones I think I've come across since we started doing Blockspace Live.
0:29.0	And then we will follow it up with one of the biggest news items so far this year, certainly this quarter in Q2.
0:35.4	Morgan Stanley becoming the first U.S. bank to offer a Bitcoin
0:39.2	ETF. And we also have some banger interviews lined up today. We've got Antoine Poinsso of Chain
0:45.5	Code Labs on first to talk about the things that he's been working on in anticipation of our
0:50.1	Op Next conference. We also have Jay Patel, the CEO of LIGO's finance, to give us a rundown of the cracks that we
0:55.7	are seeing in the private credit market and why insurers might be in hot water where
0:59.9	their exposure to private credit, but maybe not as much as some doomsayers might say.
1:04.8	And then to close out the show, we will be touching on Bit Deere's new ASIC, the A4,
1:08.8	and the New York Times figured out who Satoshi was.
1:13.5	Sike, they probably didn't, but we will be unpacking a story that dropped today from the New York Times,
1:18.3	a one year-long investigated expose on who the identity of Satoshi is.
1:24.3	Probably won't shock you because you've heard this name thrown around for Satoshi before.
1:29.6	Blockspace goes live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at noon Eastern featuring quick hits in the latest
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1:46.0	If you like this, it turns into a podcast shortly after we wrap up.
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