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BlackRock's New Bitcoin ETF Pays Monthly Income | CoinDesk Daily Jun 16, 2026

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BlackRock launches the BITA fund.

BlackRock's Bitcoin Premium Income Fund, ticker BITA, begins trading today, holding spot bitcoin and IBIT shares while selling call options to generate monthly income. CoinDesk's Uyen Truong hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Uyen Truong. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

$17 Billion Stolen in One Year: The State of Crypto Crime with Chainalysis Jun 16, 2026

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Crypto scams and how to protect yourself with Chainalysis' Eric Jardine.

Eric Jardine, Head of Research at Chainalysis, joins Gen C to break down their latest crypto crime report and the staggering numbers of nearly $17 billion stolen in scams in 2025 alone. Eric explains how AI has changed the scam equation by allowing bad actors to hit massive scale without sacrificing quality, why the people executing scams in Southeast Asian compounds are often trafficking victims themselves, and why crypto's measurability is actually an argument in its favor and not against it. Links mentioned from the podcast: Chainalysis Website: https://www.chainalysis.com/ Crypto Crime Report: https://www.chainalysis.com/reports/crypto-crime-2026/ Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 0:40 Sam's intro: crypto crime by the numbers 1:44 Welcome Eric Jardine, Chainalysis 2:34 $17B+ stolen in crypto scams (2025) 2:55 Why are scams growing? Bull markets & victim pools 4:19 Impersonation scams up 1400% YoY 5:10 How impersonation scams work (IRS, Coinbase, deepfakes) 6:53 E-ZPass smishing — crypto settlement demands 8:24 Scam-as-a-service: $500 spoofed government websites 10:24 AI as a productivity boost for criminals 11:58 DPRK (Lazarus Group) vs. Southeast Asia scam compounds 13:57 Human trafficking & forced labor in scam operations 17:37 How to protect yourself 20:09 Jurisdictional challenges & enforcement gaps 21:45 Silk Road anniversary & crypto's illicit narrative 23:04 Is crypto actually worse than cash for crime? 25:13 Enforcement wins: 61K BTC recovered, $15B forfeiture 26:13 Closing Remarks

"Gen C" features host Sam Ewen. Executive produced by Uyen Truong.

Blockspace: Why Anthropic Axed Mythos/Fable 5, IREN Seals 490MW Nostrum Acquisition, EPA Won’t Regulate Data Centers Jun 16, 2026

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Anthropic pulled the plug on its Mythos / Fable 5 model after the U.S. government raised concerns, and IREN has completed its acquisition of Nostrum for 490 MW of capacity in Spain.

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Anthropic and Uncle Sam are trading blows again, with the frontier LLM company pulling its recently released Mythos / Fable 5 model after whistleblowers said the model’s guardrails were bypassed. Lygos Finance’s CEO Jay Patel joins us for his reaction to the news and the market rally with a reported, imminent peace deal coming for the Iran War this week. For other news, we cover IREN’s closing its acquisition of Nostrum, which will give it a 490 MW foothold in Spain for AI data center development, and the EPA’s stance that it won’t regulate AI data centers.

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Energy Investors Forum is coming to Dallas on July 23, bringing together executives, operators, fund managers and investors across AI infrastructure, energy markets, data centers and bitcoin mining.

If you follow the business of power, compute and digital infrastructure, EIF is built to help you understand where these markets are heading and who is shaping them.

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SpaceX IPOs With $1.3B in Bitcoin, Citi Tokenizes Private Shares, and Coinbase Lets AI Trade for You Jun 15, 2026

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On this episode of Public Keys from the New York Stock Exchange, host Jennifer Sanasie is joined by GSR's Joshua Riezman on SpaceX's $1.29 billion Bitcoin bet and the outlook for the CLARITY Act; Citi's Artem Korenyuk on the bank's new platform for tokenizing private company shares; and Coinbase's Lincoln Murr on AI agent trading and the future of autonomous finance. Plus, Ponzi Trader's highest-conviction trade of the week on 10X, presented by Kraken Pro.

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Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to Public Keys

01:00 U.S.-Iran Deal Reopens Strait of Hormuz

01:28 SpaceX IPOs With $1.29B in Bitcoin

02:01 GSR's Joshua Riezman Joins Public Keys

03:23 Bitcoin's Corporate Treasury Era

04:47 AI vs. Crypto for Capital Flows

07:06 CLARITY Act: Now or Never

10:20 10X: Ponzi Trader’s Top Trade is XPL

12:04 Citi's Artem Korenyuk Joins Public Keys

13:29 Digital Depository Receipts Explained

16:13 Citi's Broader Tokenization Strategy

18:12 Investor Rights and Private Share Ownership

20:20 BTC and ETH ETF Flows

21:18 Coinbase Launches for Agents, Lincoln Murr Joins

23:03 AI Agent Safety and Coinbase Advisor

26:02 The Agentic Financial Future and x402

28:19 Fear & Greed Index Climbs to 20

This episode was hosted by Jennifer Sanasie.

U.S.-Iran Deal Sends BTC to Highest in Two Weeks | CoinDesk Daily Jun 15, 2026

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Peace deal between U.S. and Iran.

The peace deal between the U.S. and Iran over the weekend sent the broader crypto market up. Bitcoin reached the highest level in two weeks while oil slid on news the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Sam Ewen. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Tom Lee's Case for $22,000 Ethereum Jun 14, 2026

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Fundstrat's Tom Lee took the Consensus mainstage in Miami to make a bold call: crypto winter is over and the bull market is just getting started. Lee laid out his case for why agentic AI and tokenization will make crypto-native companies more profitable than traditional banks, argued Ethereum is deeply undervalued at current prices, and explained why BitMine, which now holds over 4% of all Ethereum supply and generates over $1 million a day in cash flow, is positioned to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the next cycle.

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00:00 - Tom Lee at Consensus Miami 2026

00:37 - Crypto Winter Is Over and the Bull Market Is Starting

02:56 - Ethereum as a Portfolio Diversifier and Long-Term Hedge

06:14 - Tokenization and Agentic AI as Drivers of the Next Bull Market

10:17 - How Crypto-Native Companies Will Replace Traditional Banks

11:28 - BitMine's Strategic Positioning and Investment in Eightco and MrBeast

16:55 - BitMine's Digital Asset Treasury Strategy

Michael Saylor: 'We Tripped Over' the World's Most Efficient Tax-Deferred Income Jun 13, 2026

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MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor took the Consensus mainstage to unveil what he calls the killer app for Bitcoin: digital credit. Saylor explained how his company's STRC instrument, now the biggest and most liquid preferred stock in the world after just eight months, strips yield from Bitcoin's volatility to create an 11.5% tax-deferred return with near-zero volatility. He argued that digital credit is the missing bridge between Bitcoin and crypto, TradFi and DeFi, and that it opens the door to a new generation of yield coins that could transform the $350 billion stablecoin market and beyond.

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00:00 - Michael Saylor at Consensus Miami 2026

01:28 - How Digital Credit Works

04:47 - Bitcoin vs MSTR vs STRC Performance

07:27 - STRC Becomes The World's Biggest Preferred Stock

12:55 - The Bridge To Digital Money And Yield

18:27 - The DeFi Opportunity For Builders

19:46 - How Yield Coins Are Replacing Stablecoins

22:34 - Building The Future Of Digital Credit

Blockspace: SpaceX’s $2T IPO by the Numbers and Anthropic’s 1 GW Search for Capacity Jun 13, 2026

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SpaceX debuted today after a $75B IPO raise, closing with a $2.11 trillion market cap, and Anthropic is searching for 1 GW to host its own GPU clusters.

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! SpaceX’s historic IPO came and went today, marking a day of firsts that saw the company close the largest IPO ever at a $2 trillion valuation, making its founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Nakamoto’s Brandon Bailey joins us to discuss the IPO and the current state of the AI stock market and bitcoin, plus his project Dimetrics, a Bloomberg-esque terminal for the data center space. In other big news, Anthropic has reportedly entered into 12 letters of intent to rent 1 GW+ of data center space for its first-ever self-owned GPU clusters.

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SpaceX's $75B IPO Comes With $1.2B in Bitcoin | CoinDesk Daily Jun 12, 2026

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SpaceX's record-breaking IPO.

SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history and began trading on Nasdaq today. The company holds 18,712 bitcoin worth roughly $1.2 billion, giving SPCX investors indirect BTC exposure. CoinDesk's Sam Ewen hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

This episode was hosted by Sam Ewen. “CoinDesk Daily” is produced by Jennifer Sanasie and edited by Victor Chen.

Are Crypto Perpetuals Futures or Swaps? Kalshi vs. John Lothian Jun 12, 2026

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CoinDesk's The Policy Protocol hosts Rebecca Rettig and Renato Mariotti unpack the CFTC's 267-page proposed rule-making around prediction markets and event contracts, plus the letter from crypto CEOs backing the BRCA. And, a debate between John Lothian and Udesh Jha, Head of Exchange Analytics at Kalshi, over whether crypto perpetuals are properly classified as futures or swaps.

Read more from Ari Redbord about the mixer indictment under 1956: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ari-redbord_in-the-midst-of-debate-around-clarity-activity-7470924721635794944-8yUy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAADHl20UBUd56sB8eTJ0w5gv3WIBQo2eJ6f0

Timecodes:

00:00 Welcome to The Policy Protocol

01:10 CFTC's 267-Page Prediction Markets Rule

03:10 60+ CEOs Back the BRCA

05:30 The Perpetuals Debate

07:43 John Lothian's Case: Do Perpetuals Look Like Swaps?

09:45 Kalshi's Udesh Jha on Funding Rates and Cost of Carry

12:43 Would Swap Status Shut Out Retail?

16:45 Is Kalshi Making the Rules Up?

19:25 John's Closing: Market Manipulation Concerns

20:46 Udesh's Closing: 'Regulation First'

23:29 Person of the Week: State Regulators