Blockspace: Whatsminer Firmware is Finally Here, Bitcoin Vegas Recap w/ BTC Inc’s Brandon Green, DeFi is in Shambles

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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For today’s show live at Bitcoin Vegas, we have Luxor’s Ethan Vera discuss their new Whatsminer firmware and BTC Inc. CEO Brandon Green gives a recap of Bitcoin Vegas. Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor Technology; Jay Patel, CEO of Ligo Finance; and Brandon Green, CEO of BTC Inc, join us live from Bitcoin Vegas! Ethan Vera breaks down Luxor’s new Whatsminer firmware release and MicroBT’s strategic investment in Luxor, and Jay Patel recaps the aftershock from the $292M Kelp DAO attack and the DeFi United alliance’s attempt to salvage the situation. Plus, Brandon Green gives us his thoughts on the Bitcoin Vegas conference and why BTC Inc. is coming home to Nashville for next year’s conference. 👉CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK), a market-leading data center developer with a proven track record of success. 👉Luxor, Blockspace's preferred mining pool. Start hashing today with Luxor! 👉Lygos Finance, Borrow against your Bitcoin, without compromising on custody.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? Welcome back to Blockspace Live. We were coming at y'all live from Las Vegas
0:10.3	with Ethan Vera, CEO of Luxor Technology, as our first guest today. We'll also have Jay Patel
0:16.4	of Ligos on to talk about some of the fallout from the Kelp Dow hack. And we also have Brandon Green, CEO of BTZ Inc.
0:22.2	to talk about Bitcoin Vegas this year and why they're deciding to go back down south to Nashville next year.
0:27.1	We've got a few news items, the Canon and Tether Bitcoin mining collaboration.
0:31.4	And we're going to be giving our takes on the conference this year to close out the show.
0:35.8	We have a lot of takes, even though most of our conference has been in the hall.
0:40.0	Still got some takes.
0:41.8	This is Blockspace Live.
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0:45.7	Even though we're on the West Coast right now, it is morning.
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1:07.4	Let's kick it off.
1:09.9	Mr. Vera.
1:10.7	Thank you for joining us. Ethan Vera. Good to be here, man. This is what being a veteran of conference looks like. Day 4, 9 a.m. We're hanging in there. Hanging on by a thread. As always, a bustling conference, lots of stuff in the conference and outside of it. And as always, a lot of announcements.
1:27.8	And you all had some big news coming into the conference this week.
1:30.3	It's a really cool deal with MicroBT announced as you roll out firmware for what's
1:36.4	minor.
1:37.0	So can you give us a quick rundown for our listeners of what this deal is and the synergies
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