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BITCOIN SEASON 2: Why The 2025 Bitcoin Bull Run Failed Us

Was the 2025 Bitcoin top a failure? We analyze why $126k felt underwhelming, compare BTC returns against Gold and the S&P 500, and discuss Meltem Demirors’ thesis on why TradFi is beating DeFi. Plus, why institutional adoption might be making crypto boring.
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The Growing Dominance of Crypto KOLs

The Growing Dominance of Crypto KOLs

Dec 5, 2025, 4:38 p.m.
THE MINING POD: ABTC Investor Unlock, IREN’s $3.6B Capital Raise, Greenidge’s Fire and Land Sale
The Blockspace Pod: The Conspiracy Was True: Operation Chokepoint 2.0
The Blockspace Pod: The Conspiracy Was True: Operation Chokepoint 2.0
THE MINING POD: CleanSpark FY 2025 Recap: It's Not an AI Pivot, It's an Expansion w/ Matthew Schultz
Erik Voorhees: The Danger of Gov Bitcoin, ‘Gross’ Politics, and Losing 50,000 BTC to the SEC
Erik Voorhees: The Danger of Gov Bitcoin, ‘Gross’ Politics, and Losing 50,000 BTC to the SEC
Blockspace Pod: Bitcoin Ruined Your Thanksgiving (Here's What To Do)
Blockspace Pod: Bitcoin Ruined Your Thanksgiving (Here's What To Do)
THE MINING POD: Operation Red Sunset, the White House’s Genesis Mission, Tether Buys BTDR, RAM Prices Soar
Blockspace Podcast: Why Most Bitcoin Treasury Companies Are Struggling — and the One That's Getting It Right
THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining Isn't Dead w/ Steve Barbour
Blockspace Podcast: Bitcoin Collapse: Here's Who's Bleeding In The Street
THE MINING POD: Nvidia’s Q3 Earnings, ERCOT Power Market Update, Cipher Lands $830M Fluidstack Expansion
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin & Islamic Finance
THE MINING POD: TeraWulf Q3 Recap: Future AI Deals, Capital Structure, and the Future of WULF’s BTC Mining
Mike Novogratz on BTC, Immigration, and the Ayahuasca Trip That Inspired Billions | Spotlight
The Blockspace Podcast: Did Jack Dorsey Fix The Bitcoin Merchant Problem?
THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining Stock Prices Lose $20B, Bitdeer’s Data Center Fire, Auradine’s New Unit, Jim Cramer Yells at CRWV
The Blockspace Podcast: $120K Bitcoin Call, Stablecoins, and 2026 Outlook
THE MINING POD: Unpacking MARA's AI Plans w/ CEO Fred Thiel
BITCOIN SEASON 2: The 7 Indicators Saying The Bull Market Isn't Over
WH Advisor Patrick Witt: Shutdown's "Strange” Silver Lining For Crypto Bill Talks
Sergey Nazarov on Crypto Bill: "Possible, if the Government Turns Back On"
Brad Garlinghouse on Ripple's $40B Valuation & "Imminent" XRP ETF
THE MINING POD: Cipher’s Amazon Deal, IREN’s Microsoft Deal, Q3 Earnings Recap, and is China Winning the AI Race?
What You Missed at the Stellar Meridian Conference
PayPal -> LinkedIn -> AI -> Crypto: Reid Hoffman's Innovator Journey | CoinDesk Spotlight
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Inside Russia's Secret Bitcoin Mining Industry
THE MINING POD: Picking Winners in the Bitcoin Miner AI Race w/ Kevin Dede
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Gold Investors Are Taking A Victory Lap
THE MINING POD: CoreWeave-Core Scientific Deal Fails, CleanSpark Eyes 285 MW AI Site, TeraWulf’s $9.5B Fluidstack Deal
THE MINING POD: CoreWeave-Core Scientific Deal Fails, CleanSpark Eyes 285 MW AI Site, TeraWulf’s $9.5B Fluidstack Deal
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin’s Newest Soft Fork Is Insane
Taking a Page From 'Elon's Book': Mo Shaikh on His New $50M Fund | Markets Outlook
Why Jan van Eck's Firm Sat Out the Digital Asset Treasury Wave | Markets Outlook
THE MINING POD: Has the Market Left MARA Behind?
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Strategy's Path To $10 Trillion
How Blockchain Adoption is Moving Beyond the ‘Crypto Casino’ | Markets Outlook
Why Zcash Is the 'Fastest Horse' for Privacy: Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz
Was the Democrat DeFi Doc Leaked in 'Bad Faith'? Senator Mark Warner on a Way Forward for Market Structure
THE MINING POD: TeraWulf’s Record $3.2B Note, Miner Debt Tops $20B, and Why AI Companies Are Buying Jet Engines
BITCOIN SEASON 2: What we know about the FTX insolvency 3 years later
THE MINING POD: How the BTC ETF Changes Investor Time Horizons
Why Eric Trump Wants to Make Big Banks 'Irrelevant' | CoinDesk Spotlight
Samson Mow Says 'Time is Running Out to Buy Bitcoin at Low Prices' | Markets Outlook
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin "Dusting" Attack You Didn't Know About W/ Galaxy Digital
THE MINING POD: MARA’s CTO Shakeup, BlackRock’s $40B AI Deal, Bitdeer’s $2B AI Plans, Ionic Digital’s Microsoft Deal
Is A Bull Run Still in Play for Q4?

Is A Bull Run Still in Play for Q4?

Oct 15, 2025, 1:11 p.m.
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Strategy's Path To $10 Trillion
THE MINING POD: Bitcoin’s 4 Year Cycles Are Over w/ Rory Murray
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin Miners Don’t Care About The Filter Debate
THE MINING POD: IREN $875M Note, Luxor Energy, Record BTC ETF Flows
Why CCP Games is Building a New Universe for EVE Frontier on Sui
Matt Hougan: 'Solana Has One of the Best Setups for a Crypto Asset in 8 Years'
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Why Filters Are Playing Into The Fed's Hands w/ Fluffypony
THE MINING POD: JPMorgan Says Buy These Bitcoin Mining Stocks
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Larry Fink’s Bitcoin ETF Is Eating Wall Street
Trader Warns of 'Pandemonium' if Bitcoin Breaks This Critical Price Level
THE MINING POD: ICE Raids BTC Mine, EOY Hashrate Forecast, Core Scientific CRWV Vote, Tether’s BTC Holdings
Is Crypto The Way Out for US Debt?

Is Crypto The Way Out for US Debt?

Oct 2, 2025, 8:41 p.m.
Will a Government Shutdown Slow Crypto Legislation?
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bitcoin's Missing Piece: Zero-Knowledge Proofs
If Bitcoin Is for the 'Kings,' Is Litecoin for the People? | CoinDesk Spotlight With Charlie Lee
THE MINING POD: Trading the AI/HPC Sector, Bitdeer's ASIC, Bitcoin’s Parabolic Hashrate w/Pennyether
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Inside the Mind of Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin's Most Polarizing Developer
THE MINING POD: Cipher Lands Google Deal, MicroBT Opens U.S. Shop, IREN Doubles GPU Fleet
Arthur Hayes: 'Hyperliquid is Facing its Gentrification Moment'
PayPal's PYUSD Launches on Stellar to "Revolutionize Commerce" | Markets Outlook
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Inside The Secret World Of Bitcoin Scammers w/ Junseth
THE MINING POD: Lunar Data Centers Aren’t Sci-Fi, They’re Reality w/ Chris Stott
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Kevin Durant’s Coinbase Debacle, Saylor’s Using AI & Monero’s Reorg
THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining News: Bitcoin Mining Stocks Surge, SEALMINER A3 Launch, NAKA Stock Crash
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Astrology Tells Us What Bitcoin Is Going To Do in 2026
THE MINING POD: Mike Alfred on IREN, Fintwit, and the Digital Infrastructure Thesis
BITCOIN SEASON 2: How Nepal Used Discord to Elect its Next PM
THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining News: Tether’s Court Win, US Gov’t Eyes Bitmain, AI’s Hashrate Impact
BITCOIN SEASON 2: How To Beat Coinbase On-chain w/ Flashnet’s Ethan Marcus
THE MINING POD: This BTC Business Model is a Quiet Cash Cow w/ Brandon Mintz
THE MINING POD: Jack Dorsey's Proto Miner is Coming For Bitmain
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Filters Are Futile

BITCOIN SEASON 2: Filters Are Futile

Sep 6, 2025, 2:20 p.m.
THE MINING POD: Bitcoin Mining News: Trump-Backed ABTC Goes Public, IREN Overpriced? And CORZ Deal Trouble
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Bears Are Wrong About Strategy’s Bitcoin Play
THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin’s Mining Revenue Model Broken?
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Tether on RGB, finding UAE's $700mm in btc, and USGox data on Bitcoin
THE MINING POD: ABTC Could Go Public Next Month, IREN Expands its GPU Feet, Ocean Pool Has a Glitch
THE MINING POD: Google Ups TeraWulf Stake, MSTR’s New Stock Guidance, Kanye’s Memecoin
BITCOIN SEASON 2: The Tornado Cash Trial, Explained
THE MINING POD: Leadership Change, 50 EH/s, and HPC W/ CleanSpark's Harry Sudock
Why Former Barclays CEO Bob Diamond Is Bullish on HYPE | Markets Outlook
BITCOIN SEASON 2: We're in a Recession on TikTok, But Not in the Market
THE MINING POD: Proto ASIC Miner, MARA’s AI Move, Google Invests in Terawulf, Ethiopia Mining Ban
BITCOIN SEASON 2: The Economic Case for Bitcoin Treasury Companies
Why Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Modified Its $1.5M Target | CoinDesk Spotlight
THE MINING POD: Pacific Northwest Bitcoin Mining w/ Beau Turner
Will the 'Saylor Effect' Push Ether to $8K? | Markets Outlook
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Comply or Die: Privacy or Palantir
THE MINING POD: China Mining Ban Fake News, Semiconductor Tariffs, $14.5B Mining Pool Heist
BITCOIN SEASON 2: Can Bitcoin Go Negative? How Bitcoin Futures Contracts Work
Why This Nasdaq Company Is Diversifying Into Litecoin