Howdy y'all. Charlie here. Watch our new documentary, The Bitcoin Professor, featuring Starkware co-founder Ellie Bin Sasson as he and I hit the road to meet with real Bitcoiners in the American Heartland.

We visit a Bitcoin mine, a Bitcoin cattle ranch, and a local Bitcoin meetup.

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You know, there's been this huge spending boom in 2024 and 2025 for AI data centers,

but frankly, supply chains haven't been able to keep up with this, and I would not be surprised to see

them break in 2026, so much so that you see multiple delays from multiple different providers

for these data centers. To me, it almost seems like if you're looking for a spark that could

light the fuse for a recession, it would be these deals being delayed and certain companies

either defaulting on the

debt that they have for these things or just creating a kind of cascading event as confidence

breaks down in this trade. Because we've already started to see that with Blue Owl, Oracle's chief

financing partner, they declined financing one of Oracle's new data center builds. Basically

saying that the ROI just

didn't make sense for them. They don't want to take the risk. If you just look at everything

that's going on, the macro market and in the kind of accordion effect for supply chains that

we're really still feeling since COVID and all of the mixed pricing signals, it seems

kind of obvious to me.

Bitcoin mining expert says that Bitcoin's hash rate growth will stall or even pull back

in 2026. Yes, this is the 2026 predictions episode from us at Blockspace Media.

Colin and I have six predictions on Polymarket, AI one-shotting all the boomers, Bitcoin lending,

and yep, we are still gold bugs. This is the Blockspace podcast brought to you by CleanSpark,

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