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The Blockspace Pod: The real story behind NAKA’s BTC Inc transaction

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Amanda Fabiano joins the podcast to discuss the evolution of Bitcoin corporate treasuries. From her experience at Fidelity and Galaxy to her new role at NAKA, she explains why public companies need diversified recurring revenue models beyond just holding Bitcoin on their balance sheets. 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. Amanda Fabiano, former Head of Mining at Galaxy and now with Nakamoto, joins us to talk about the shift from Bitcoin mining to building diversified Bitcoin operating businesses. Why the "HODL-only" strategy is evolving for Nasdaq-listed companies, the importance of recurring revenue, and how NAKA is positioning itself as a leader in the next phase of the Bitcoin financial infrastructure. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Notes: • Strategy focused on recurring revenue models. • Transition from mining to operating businesses. • Shift toward diversified crypto business models. • Market adjustment for Bitcoin specific firms. Timestamps: 00:00 Start 05:26 Amanda joins NAKA 07:18 BTC Inc brands 12:06 Valuing companies 16:45 Kindly MD deal 20:18 Next steps & business lines 21:53 Raising debt 28:49 Senior debt obligation 32:54 Preferred equity 34:17 Dividends? 34:58 David Bailey on both sides of the books 40:31 Using proceeds to buy BTC not debt 44:21 NASDAQ delisting notice 49:34 Wrap up 👉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.

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0:00.0

Since joining Naka, it's kind of interesting because I actually have been quite the naysayer about Bitcoin Treasuries is just this overall strategy. I know that sounds like an insane statement because we raised a lot of money to buy Bitcoin and we did exactly that. The way I look at it is treasury is the foundation to doing something bigger. That's exactly why I liked Nakamoto from the beginning. Their thought process was different. From day one, they said, we're planning on rolling in these operating businesses. And so I think, you know,

0:24.3

we all believe in Bitcoin. We all believe that Bitcoin has and will continue to shape the financial

0:29.0

infrastructure of the future, right? But just holding Bitcoin is not enough. As a NASDAQ listed

0:34.1

company, you really need a strategy that has businesses with reoccurring revenue

0:38.8

and the planet to grow. The market will have to adjust and evolve, just like they have in the past,

0:44.8

for how to think about a Bitcoin operating business that is specific to Bitcoin. And this isn't new.

0:51.4

Like, we're not like, this happened, like you said, with miners. This happened with,

0:55.1

like even at Galaxy, right? Like, it was like, Galaxy is a diversified crypto business. We're a

0:59.6

diversified Bitcoin business. And so it's hard to think about who the pairs are that you would

1:04.6

like mark yourselves against. My expectation is that we'll be looked at as a sum of the parts.

1:10.1

And that's like how we're thinking about presenting financials, right?

1:13.2

So you can see like how each business line did and then judge us based on that.

1:17.7

Our job is to just really build a company that provides shareholder value year over year and quarter over quarter.

1:23.2

And that's what we plan to do.

1:26.8

Hey, welcome back to the Blockspace podcast presented by CleanSpark, more on them during the show.

1:32.5

In this audio-only exclusive, we are joined by Amanda Fabiano.

1:36.6

She is the CEO of Nakamoto Holdings, which just executed on a large transaction to bring BTC Inc,

1:43.2

the parent company of the Bitcoin

1:44.9

Conference and Bitcoin Magazine, plus UTXO management and Bitcoin for corporations inside

1:51.1

Nakamoto. While this has been telegraphed for a while, ever since David Bailey raised

1:55.5

for Nakamoto, the actual transaction only executed this week. There's a lot of questions on X and other platforms

2:03.5

around how his transaction was actually executed and what it means for NACA shareholders going to

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