The Blockspace Pod: Galaxy’s 830 MW Expansion, BitGo’s $1.96B IPO, BitMine’s $200M Bet on MrBeast

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🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Galaxy Digital landed a 830 MW approval from ERCOT, and MrBeast gets a $200M investment from BitMine. Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter! Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Colin and Charlie dig into Galaxy's 830 MW ERCOT approval for its Helios site, CleanSpark's latest land acquisition in Texas, BitGo's $1.96B IPO prospectus, Semler shareholders voting yes on the merger with Strive, and the first change to Bitcoin’s BIP process in 9 years. Finally, for this week’s (truly odd) cry corner: BitMine is investing $200M into YouTuber MrBeast (yes, really). Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: * Galaxy Helios: 830MW approved * Clean Spark: 447 acres acquired * BitGo IPO: $1.96B valuation aim * BitMine: $200M to Beast Industries * Bitcoin Price: $97,000 recorded * Hash Price: Above $40/PH/Day Timestamps: 00:00 Start 02:17 Difficulty Report by Luxor 06:42 Galaxy 830 MW approval 10:30 CLSK land acquisition 15:37 BitGo IPO 19:00 ASST - SMLR deal approved 21:32 New BIP, who dis? 25:39 Cry corner: BMNR invests in MrBeast 👉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. 👉 FBOX, Cooling for Bitcoin Mining and the AI Data Center Transformation FBOX is the global leader in cooling system manufacturing, with the #1 shipment volume of bitcoin mining containers worldwide. Not only powering for the strongest hashrate, their technology also helps mining infrastructure transform into AI data centers. Backed by the largest production scale on earth, global deployment capability, and a full range of cooling solutions, they are shaping the future of compute. 👉 Luxor, Leaders In Bitcoin Mining and Compute Power! Get game-changing mining results with Luxor Firmware. Boost hashrate, cut energy costs, protect your hardware, and maximize mining profits with LuxOS. Published thrice weekly, "The Blockspace Pod" interviews the best builders and operators in the Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining landscape. Subscribe to get notifications when we publish interviews on Tuesday, our news show on Friday, and our Writer's Room talk show on Saturday!

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0:00.0	A former Ethereum miner turned Ethereum Treasury Company has invested $200 million of their equity into Mr. Beast's Beast Industries.
0:09.1	His eyes are dead, like reptilian, like inhuman.
0:13.9	They asked American school kids what they wanted to be when they grow up.
0:17.8	And the number one answer was a YouTube influencer.
0:20.3	Heck yeah.
0:22.2	Hey, let me tell you, top of the food pyramid here.
0:28.1	And then in China, kids want to be astronauts and physicists.
0:31.8	That's fake CCP data.
0:33.8	They're just trying to intimidate you.
0:36.5	The America public into rolling over.
0:38.7	I should eat the CTP propaganda. I should eat the Mr. Beast feastable. Exactly. You can eat
0:42.8	the feastables or the bugs. Feastables or the bugs. There's no in between. The whole thing just
0:48.5	seems weird. And honestly, if you're investing in Mr. Beast, it makes me want to run away from your
0:53.4	stock as far as possible.
0:57.6	What's up, y'all? Welcome back to the Blockspace Pod, brought to you by CleanSpark.
1:01.4	We've got a packed docket for today's news roundup, starting with news that Galaxy has received approval from Ercot for an 830 megawatt expansion at its helio site.
1:10.6	You follow that up with CleanSpark's latest acquisition in Texas as it eyes AI operations in the state.
1:18.2	And we move on to BitGo's IPO prospectus for a $9.6 billion initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.
1:26.6	We also touch on similar scientific shareholders
1:30.7	voting yes on the Strive merger deal and stock prices following after that vote. We also
1:37.5	touch on a change to Bitcoin's Bitcoin Improvement Proposal Process as BIP3, a BIP to improve
1:43.9	BIPs gets approved and merged into
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