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Blockspace: Kraken Cancels IPO, Vanity Fair Takes Down Crypto, Ledn's CEO on Bitcoin loans, & Mining to AI/HPC

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🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Kraken shelves its IPO as market conditions shift. Francis Corvino joins to break down the Blockfills bankruptcy and the $145M in claims. Plus, the SEC's new token guidance, Circle’s stock surge, and a sophisticated North Korean hack targeting Bitrefill and Jimmy Song. 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. Francis Corvino, of Lygos Finance joins us to talk about the Blockfills bankruptcy filing, their $145M in unsecured claims, and why the 2022 "hangover" is still claiming victims today. We also dive into Kraken’s decision to delay its public offering, the SEC’s long-awaited guidance on token offerings, and the meteoric rise of Circle’s stock following Clarity Act talks. Finally, we warn you about the sophisticated Lazarus Group phishing campaign that hit Bitrefill and targeted seasoned developers. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * Kraken delayed IPO due to market conditions. * Blockfills: $145M in unsecured claims reported. * Lazarus Group hack targeted Bitrefill via Telegram. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:33 Kraken IPO delay 12:06 Lygos Finance on Bitfills 26:09 SEC clarity on crypto assets 34:59 Vanity Fair hit piece 47:44 Ledn & the Bitcoin loan market 1:02:42 Cathedra on HPC & mining 👉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. We have got a packed docket today. Crackin is shelving its IPO attempt. Maybe try again another day, but they say right now the market is just not ripe enough for it. We also have a story about a Vanity Fair hit piece on the Crypto Reach that depicts them exactly as you might expect, actually.

0:28.2

And probably the biggest news today, the SEC is finally going to give us some guidance on what a token offering is and should be and how developers and teams can

0:40.0

manage these without getting their pants suit off. And we will close with a story on bit refill

0:45.0

suffering from the Lazarus Group hack through Telegram that we discussed on the show a month or two

0:50.2

ago. And we also have some great guests lined up today. We have Francis Corvino of

0:54.9

Ligos to talk about the Blockfields bankruptcy. We've got Adam Reed of Lenin to talk about the

1:00.6

Bitcoin lending market and Tom Massaro of Cathedral to discuss the Speer 3D merger.

1:06.5

Block space goes live on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at noon.

1:16.3

Eastern, we feature quick hits on the latest in mining tech, AI, Bitcoin.

1:18.5

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1:24.9

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1:25.9

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1:30.0

You can find anywhere podcasts are downloaded. And if you like what you hear, you'll love our newsletter, newsletter at dot, blockspace.media. Sorry, newsletter.

1:35.9

Dot blackspacemedia.com. And lastly, we have a conference this April in New York City.

1:42.0

It's a technical conference targeted for the investors.

1:45.2

If you're in New York City, go to op next. OP-N-E-X-T.D-E-V. Love to see you there. Infant tickets on the

1:53.6

website. This show is brought to you by Clean Spark. Let's kick it off, Colin. And we'll start with a little

2:00.4

just market update because I think this leads in well to the

2:02.7

crack in story. Bitcoin down today, 3.4% after just touching, almost getting back above

2:09.4

75,000 this week.

2:11.7

We're still, well, we were up a lot more on the week up until this sell-off.

2:16.3

But, you know, we're still above 70K. I think a lot of people were surprised to see this, considering the entire world is kind of

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