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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| 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. |
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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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