The Blockspace Pod: Bitdeer's Clarington Lawsuit, $IREN's MSCI Index Listing, and Bitcoin's Quantum Step

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🗓️ 14 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Colin and Charlie break down the latest Bitcoin news, from the massive $16k price drawdown and capitulation theories to Bitdeer’s legal woes in Ohio and IREN joining the MSCI index. Plus, a deep dive into "quantum resistance" and the historic shift in mining difficulty. Colin and Charlie join us to talk about a wild week in Bitcoin. We dive into the $16,000 price "puke" and whether we've hit a local bottom, explore Bitdeer's legal snag at their Ohio AI flagship site, and discuss IREN's inclusion in the MSCI USA index. We also break down the historic six-out-of-seven negative difficulty adjustments—the first since 2011—and tackle the "ontology of time" and quantum resistance. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * Bitcoin lost $16,000 within 12 hours last week. * BTC saw a historic 21% daily price drawdown. * Bitdeer's Ohio site has 570MW allocated. * 6 of last 7 difficulty adjustments were negative. * IREN to join MSCI USA index on March 2nd. * Bitcoin hash price recovered to roughly $35/PH. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 04:01 BTC number go down! 10:10 Difficulty Update by Luxor 12:32 Bitdeer lawsuit 18:39 Cleanspark Ad 19:08 IREN added to MSCI USA Index 22:33 The MARA-Exaion plot thickens 29:14 BIP 360 merged 37:49 OP_NEXT Ad 39:21 Cry corner: No one understands anything about anything - 👉CleanSpark, America's Bitcoin Miner! 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. Enjoy the show? Check out our website and newsletter by clicking here. Questions or want to sponsor? hello@blockspace.media

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0:00.0	Here is another one of the biggest podcasts in Bitcoin, where they're talking about how there's
0:05.0	zero risk of quantum attack. So the reason why it's either or it's like it's Bitcoin or it's
0:10.3	quantum in terms of quantum computers. And the reason why I say that is because it relies on the
0:14.6	ontology of time itself. Both general relativity and quantum mechanics both assume
0:19.7	continuous time.
0:25.6	If you pull that assumption away and say, no, it's discrete, we have to actually rebuild those theories from the bottom up again with this new understanding of time.
0:29.7	The ontology of time.
0:31.5	I mean, I honestly thought I had heard it all from Bitcoin podcasts, but that line is what
0:36.9	absolutely sent me.
0:38.8	I can't think of that as anything more than just absolute shite, man.
0:42.8	I mean, what are we doing?
0:44.6	Yeah, it makes you very bearish on the average Bitcoiners ability to think critically.
0:51.3	That's right. We're back.
0:52.9	The Blockspace Live Pod. We've been doing it live a little bit, but this time it is actually a live show. Fridays at 12 Eastern. I don't know what that is in Universal Time. But thanks for joining. It's Colin and Charlie. We are going to do a news roundup of what's been going on this
1:11.4	week, and I will tag in Colin for the topics of the day. It's 5 p.m. UTC. Okay. Thank you.
1:19.5	But we're American, so we go by Eastern time. Yeah, everybody's Eastern time. So as Charlie said, we're going to start doing
1:28.2	these news roundups live on Friday. And for our inaugural one, we have got an absolutely packed
1:34.2	docket. We are going to start with a BTC price update and some commentary from some of our
1:39.1	favorite analysts about what the hell happened last week and whether or not that marks a local bottom.
1:45.2	Everyone's question, the question that's on top of the mind for everyone, we'll have our
1:49.3	hash rate looking at hash price, difficulty, and hash rate. A lot of interesting stuff to unpack
1:53.7	there. Bitcoin actually just had a historic difficulty adjustment, and it comes after a string
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