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Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, Aydin Kilic, CEO of HIVE Digital Technologies, joins us to talk about the company’s AI shift, and Bitcoin developer Portland Hodl joins us to discuss how AI is disrupting the software engineering industry. We also break down Nasdaq's SEC approval for tokenized equity trading, and the upcoming Netflix series on the FTX collapse produced by the Obamas, and an update on the CLARITY Act.
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* Bitcoin difficulty drops by 7.23%.
* Hashrate down over 100 EH/s recently.
* HIVE BC site targeting 12.5MW by 2027.
* Grace Blackwell GPUs earn $60M/year per 5MW.
* Nasdaq cleared to offer tokenized trading
* Coinbase opens perpetual futures trading to non-US users
* CLARITY Act could advance to Senate floor next month
02:29 Difficulty Report By Hashrate Index
13:11 Netflix FTX adaptation
32:19 SEC approves Nasdaq for tokenized securities
40:31 Aydin Kilic - CEO at HIVE
1:06:15 Bitcoin Bugle & Maxi Madness
1:15:12 CLARITY Act update
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