Blockspace: SBF Goes to Hollywood, SEC Clears Nasdaq for Tokenized Trading, Clarity on CLARITY

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🗓️ 21 March 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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On today’s Blockspace Live, we address reports alleging that Coinbase is meddling in the CLARITY Act and break down Blockfill’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 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, Aydin Kilic, CEO of HIVE Digital Technologies, joins us to talk about the company’s AI shift, and Bitcoin developer Portland Hodl joins us to discuss how AI is disrupting the software engineering industry. We also break down Nasdaq's SEC approval for tokenized equity trading, and the upcoming Netflix series on the FTX collapse produced by the Obamas, and an update on the CLARITY Act. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * Bitcoin difficulty drops by 7.23%. * Hashrate down over 100 EH/s recently. * HIVE BC site targeting 12.5MW by 2027. * Grace Blackwell GPUs earn $60M/year per 5MW. * Nasdaq cleared to offer tokenized trading * Coinbase opens perpetual futures trading to non-US users * CLARITY Act could advance to Senate floor next month Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:29 Difficulty Report By Hashrate Index 13:11 Netflix FTX adaptation 19:30 Portland Hodl 32:19 SEC approves Nasdaq for tokenized securities 37:36 Morgan Stanley ETF 40:31 Aydin Kilic - CEO at HIVE 1:06:15 Bitcoin Bugle & Maxi Madness 1:15:12 CLARITY Act update 👉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	Welcome back to Blockspace Live presented by CleanSpark y'all.
0:08.6	We're coming at you all live on Friday 9 a.m. PST, 12 p.m. ET.
0:13.3	We've got a packed lineup today for news.
0:16.5	The Obamas are producing an FTX series.
0:19.3	Put a little tip into the tip into the tip jar for Marty Bent was right about
0:24.2	conspiracy theories.
0:25.7	And then we've also got a TradFi update that's really three pronged.
0:30.5	We're going to try to condense it into one segment.
0:32.6	NASDAQ is cleared for token based equity listings.
0:36.1	We've also got Coinbase rolling out perps for non-US
0:40.2	users. And this comes on the heels of Morgan Stanley filing an amendment for their Bitcoin
0:45.7	ETF filing with the SEC. We got a ticker. We know where it's going to be trading for the last
0:50.9	news item today, an update from our friends at CoinDesk on Clarity.
1:00.3	And for our interview segments, we've got Eidink, CEO and President of Hive on to talk about their AI expansion.
1:06.7	We've got Bitcoin developer Portland Hoddle on talking about how you can supercharge your vibe coding with Claude.
1:09.2	And we've got the boys from the bugle.
1:13.1	We've got Rod on to talk about Bitcoin Maxi Madness.
1:18.1	If you're into March Madness, this is going to be for you, except it's not basketball.
1:20.1	It's maximalist.
1:24.8	Block space goes live Monday, Wednesday, Friday at noon Eastern.
1:29.4	We feature quick hits in the latest in Bitcoin mining, Bitcoin tech, AI,
1:34.2	and other emerging technical cultural stories. Make sure to hit subscribe if you're watching on YouTube, get that bell, get that notification. This is also a podcast. You can find it
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