The Blockspace Pod: The State of Crypto Media w/ Brady Dale

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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For today’s Blockspace Pod, Brady Dale joins us to discuss the best and worst crypto media publications for 2026. Subscribe to the Blockspace newsletter! Welcome back to The Blockspace Pod! Today, Brady Dale, author of the Front Stage Exit newsletter and former Axios reporter, joins us to talk about the state of bitcoin/crypto media. We break down the current landscape into a number of categories, including incumbents / newcomers, tradfi giants, research desks, alt crypto media, and more. Brady and the hosts critique the decline of leading outlets, the SEO tactics of a specific tradfi publication, and why the "discovery audience" strategy didn’t pan out. Subscribe to the newsletter! https://newsletter.blockspacemedia.com Timestamps: 00:00 Start 03:21 Who is Brady? 08:02 Colin's take 15:17 Small But Deadly 23:04 Research Desks 28:31 TradFi Giants 35:13 Shuffling the Deck 44:03 Non-journalist Challengers 49:32 The Alternative to the Alternatives 56:08 Conferences 1:03:32 Brady's X Thread 👉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 twice 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 and a news show on Friday!

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0:00.0	Bitcoin hit another all-time high this year. We have a president who's pro-crypto,
0:03.7	and yet there is not a leading crypto publication in the country or the world right now,
0:08.0	which just seems very weird. It makes me sad, man, because it should be the premier publication
0:14.1	for Bitcoin coverage. You can have really cool, like, early vice-esque articles about culture
0:20.6	and all these other things, and there's just
0:22.6	none of it. I understand that journalism is a very tough business model to make work, but I still
0:28.2	don't believe somebody can't make money and do pretty well running a newsroom, covering a world
0:34.4	that's really literally able to spend money out of thin air. That just
0:37.6	is hard for me to believe, but no one is really doing it right now.
0:43.0	Happy New Year, y'all, and welcome back to the Blockspace Pod, brought to you by CleanSpark.
0:47.3	Crypto Media seems like it's always in flux, or dare I say, even in an existential crisis
0:51.8	perpetually. So as we enter 2026, we ask ourselves the question,
0:56.2	what is the current state of crypto and Bitcoin media and which outlets truly deserve your
1:00.7	trust in readership? To help address these questions, we have Brady Dale on, the author of the
1:06.0	front stage exit newsletter and long-tenured crypto beat reporter with stints at Axios and Coin Desk.
1:11.7	We break out the leading crypto publications, both mainstream and crypto industry specific.
1:17.4	Which ones do we think really merit your time and attention?
1:20.8	Listen on to find out.
1:22.4	Howdy y'all? Charlie here.
1:24.3	Watch our new documentary, The Bitcoin Professor, featuring Starkware co-founder
1:28.2	Ellie Ben Sassan as he and I hit the road to meet with real Bitcoiners in the American
1:33.3	heartland. We visit a Bitcoin mine, a Bitcoin cattle ranch, and a local Bitcoin meetup.
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