Blockspace: Robinhood Opens AI Trading, IREN’s $1.6B GPU Buy, Hut 8 CEO Beacon Point Update
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up, y'all? Welcome back to Blockspace Live, brought to you by Clean Spark. Today for our top story, big day for agentic payment enjoyers, because AI is coming to Robin Hood. That's right. You thought you were going to use AI to automate your workflow. It's actually going to make you trade better or make you poorer, depending on the decisions that it makes, not financial advice. |
| 0:27.2 | And then for our interview today, we have Asher Gnuch of HUD-Aid on to talk about their new beacon point AI data center that they announced earlier this month. |
| 0:36.7 | On to other news, Iron is buying Blackwells for its Navidia rollout in Childress. |
| 0:44.6 | 1.6 billion dollar purchase that just hit today. |
| 0:47.9 | We will cover that as our second news item. |
| 0:50.2 | And then for our third news item, we have Core 42 seeking out half a billion financing to build |
| 0:54.7 | data centers in the U.S. and surprise, Europe. Perhaps the demise of Europe has been much overstated |
| 1:01.3 | on social media. And to wrap it up a little bit of a juicy story here, Mara's security expenses |
| 1:08.0 | in 2025 and why that's actually not out of the ordinary these days for |
| 1:13.1 | crypto executives. As much as the Financial Times would like to berate them and make you feel like |
| 1:17.9 | this is a weird thing to do when wrench attacks are happening all over the world, it's actually |
| 1:22.5 | kind of normal in becoming the standard for some of the top companies. That's right. Blackspace |
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