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Blockspace: Justin Sun vs. Trump, Blackrock’s BTC Income ETF, and Why AI Trading Agents Aren’t That Good (Yet)

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Justin Sun has had enough with Trump-connected World Liberty Financial, and Blackrock has filed for a fund that pays income from IBIT options. 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, Zack Pokorny from Galaxy Digital joins us to talk about AI crypto trading agents – specifically, why they aren’t ready for the big time just yet. We also dive into the evolving beef between World Liberty Financial and Tron’s Justin Sun following WLFI’s $75 million loan from a Dolomite lending pool. Plus, we cover Blackrock’s new bitcoin income ETF, discuss Circle’s refusal to freeze $270 million from the Lazarus Group Drift hack, and analyze last week’s $1.1 billion ETF inflow, the largest for crypto since January. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: • WLFI treasury borrows $75M on Dolomite. • Blackrock files for Bitcoin Income ETF. • Trump family scrubbed from WLFI team member page. • ETF inflows clock largest volume since January. • Circle refuses to freeze Drift hack funds. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 04:03 WLFI... umm WFT? 19:11 BITA covered call income 27:19 AI Agent & blockchains: a reality check 42:05 Circle & teken freezing 55:13 Coinshares high inflows 👉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 coming at y'all fresh and early this Monday morning.

0:12.0

The crypto oligarchs are at each other's throats as World Liberty Financial threatens to sue Justin's son after the Tron founder and erstwhile World Liberty Financial supporter

0:22.4

excoriated the Defy Project linked to President Trump after some shady borrowing tactics

0:28.9

that left a bunch of retail crypto investors marooned and a dolomite lending protocol.

0:34.9

For our second story, we cover a new income ETF from BlackRock tied to its iBit Bitcoin

0:41.9

ETF and include a buyer beware statement for if you're looking at this for Bitcoin yield,

0:50.5

you might want to look elsewhere.

0:52.2

And then for today's guest, we have Zach McCorney from Galaxy Digital on to talk about

0:56.0

agenic payments and blockchains.

0:57.9

And then we will wrap up the show with a note on Circle refusing to freeze funds tied to a

1:05.6

recent drift hack from the Lazarus Group in North Korea and a little bit of opium to close

1:10.7

out the show with

1:11.7

ETF flows last week hitting their largest volume for crypto since January.

1:18.4

Block space goes live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at noon Eastern.

1:23.5

We feature quick hits on the latest in Bitcoin, mining, AI, emerging tech.

1:28.9

Make sure to like and subscribe if you're on YouTube, hit the notification bell,

1:33.4

so you get the push notifications to your mobile.

1:36.1

And after this wraps, after about an hour, it becomes a podcast.

1:40.8

Anywhere podcasts are found, Spotify, Apple, RSS.

1:45.7

And if you like this stream, you will love our

1:48.0

newsletter drops on Fridays. We go

1:50.1

deeper and we do

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