The Block Runner Podcast

By William and Iman

The Block Runner is your authentic source for Bitcoin, AI and other cryptocurrency technology, explanations and news. Learn the most optimal strategies to optimize your cryptocurrency knowledge. We

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June 10, 2026 317. TBR - Bitcoin’s Failed Rocket Launch | The Diminishing Returns Problem | RWAs and the Collectibles Wave
In Episode 317 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William and I-man unpack why this Bitcoin cycle felt like a failed rocket launch, how unrealistic expectations soured market sentiment, and what Bitcoin's diminishing returns mean for miners and the long-term security budget.
They then dive into the real world asset wave sweeping crypto: graded sports cards and Pokemon moving on-chain, Meteora and OpenSea entering the RWA arena, and what past collectible bubbles, from tulips to trading cards, teach us about speculative media.
Finally, they share NAT.fun updates: the second rocket launch, a move toward systemic periodic launches, fame-score based caps, and ten thousand dollars up for grabs for creators.
Disclosure: The hosts are founders of NAT.fun and hold positions in assets discussed. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.
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June 09, 2026316. TBR - The NAT.fun Launch Post-Mortem | Why Gold Is Beating Bitcoin | The AI Bubble and Attention Markets
In Episode 316 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William and I-man give an honest post-mortem on the first NAT.fun launch, break down why gold and AI equities are outrunning Bitcoin in this bear-market stretch, and walk through the plan for a second launch with healthier token distribution.
Disclosure: William and I-man are founders of NAT.fun and hold NAT tokens. All analysis in this episode reflects their perspective as participants in the ecosystem.
Key topics:
Bear-market sentiment, round three: gold outrunning Bitcoin, Mark Cuban turning bearish, and David Hoffman exiting ETH, plus why the feeling of a market top keeps getting worse even as prices stay historically high
The AI and equities bubble: Anthropic's revenue versus its trillion-dollar valuation, Jensen Huang's argument for growing GDP with AI and robots, and Mag 7 stocks versus Bitcoin in a market where attention, not fundamentals, sets the price
Attention markets everywhere: gambling apps, Pokemon cards, and conspiracy and alien mania as symptoms of where speculative dopamine has migrated away from crypto
The NAT.fun launch post-mortem: the first token's broken distribution (ten holders, one wallet holding around 80 percent, graduation in roughly ten minutes), why that makes a credible Vibathon impossible, and the second rocket plan with a higher graduation threshold for better NFT distribution
Product direction: a tour of the Vibe Studio and the tarot-card creator example, integrating vibe creation into the launch flow, the Breaking Bad themed launch video breakdown, and an open letter to Foundry on Bitcoin's declining security budget and NAT
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June 02, 2026315. TBR - NAT.fun Has Launched! | Our Predictions for DMT and NAT.fun | Top 25 Web3 Revenue
In Episode 315 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William, I-man, and TJ record on the eve of the NAT.fun launch, break down the top 25 revenue-generating protocols in Web3, and make bold predictions for how DMT and NAT.fun will perform once the button is finally pushed.
Disclosure: William and I-man are founders of NAT.fun and hold NAT tokens. All analysis in this episode reflects their perspective as participants in the ecosystem.
Key topics:
NAT.fun launch: the pre-launch nerves, the complexity of building a platform this ambitious, and what it feels like to finally push the button after a year of development
AI-accelerated development: how AI tools enabled a more polished product than would have been possible otherwise, and the security audit gauntlet that caused the final delays
Top 25 Web3 protocols by monthly revenue: Tether and Circle dominating at $476M and $191M, Hyperliquid flipping Solana in FDV, and what real product-market fit looks like in crypto
Pump.fun's breakthrough: solving the liquidity bootstrapping problem, consumer crypto's uncomfortable truth about speculation, and the macro forces driving casino behavior
DMT and NAT predictions: what happens if the thesis proves correct, how the market will respond, and the team's expectations for the platform
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May 09, 2026314. TBR - Hantavirus Pandemic Fears | BIT Token Forensics | NAT.fun Security Audits
In Episode 314 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William, I-man, and TJ process eerie 2020 déjà vu as hantavirus headlines multiply, dissect the BIT token's suspicious on-chain distribution and its ultimatum to the TAP ecosystem, and share a candid update on why the NAT.fun launch is taking longer than expected — and why that's the right call.
Disclosure: William and I-man are founders of NAT.fun and hold NAT tokens. All analysis in this episode reflects their perspective as participants in the ecosystem.
Key topics:
Hantavirus outbreak from a cruise ship birdwatching excursion — roughly 40 exposed passengers now scattered across multiple continents with limited contact tracing
2020 rhyming: the hosts recall their December 2019 episode when they first noticed anomalies from the east, and why the pattern of early dismissal followed by rapid escalation feels uncomfortably familiar
Black swan market impact — revisiting the March 2020 crash where Bitcoin dropped 40–50% in a single day, what that felt like in real time, and what a repeat scenario would mean for miners and MicroStrategy's leveraged position
MicroStrategy's exit strategy: Saylor's estimated two-year runway before forced selling becomes necessary, and why a prolonged bear market triggered by a pandemic could test the thesis in ways the market hasn't priced in
BIT token forensic breakdown: suspicious distribution patterns, an ultimatum issued to TAP protocol, and why the on-chain data tells a clear story about intent
NAT vs. BIT — why open ecosystems attract forks and copycats, how to distinguish real innovation from opportunistic wave-riding, and why anonymous actors demanding ecosystem changes deserve extra scrutiny
NAT.fun security audit progress — why launching a complex platform responsibly requires more time than the community wants, and the lessons learned from watching competitors rush to market and fail
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May 02, 2026313. TBR - Solana Ecosystem Backlash | Printer Refunds $2M | Pump.Fun Competitor Failures | NAT.fun Launch Lessons
In Episode 313 of The Block Runner Podcast, William and I-man break down the latest stress test for crypto launch platforms: Believe’s rapid rise, the Printer token ICO backlash, the $2M refund, and what the failed attempts to disrupt Pump.Fun reveal about launching in a permissionless market.
The conversation centers on how quickly community momentum can reverse when a platform moves too fast into tokenization, why founders face extreme psychological pressure once market attention arrives, and why examples like Believe, Heaven, Bonk-adjacent launch efforts, and Printer matter directly to the NAT.fun launch thesis.
Key topics:
Believe’s position in the launch ecosystem and how quickly market attention can concentrate around a new platform
The Printer ICO, Coinbase/Sonar rails, and why selling a token too early can reverse community sentiment
The mental-health pressure founders face when crypto Twitter turns from attention into personal attack
The $2M refund and what it says about trust, timing, and execution in token launches
Why attempts to disrupt Pump.Fun keep failing, from Believe to Heaven to Printer
How these failures become direct lessons for NAT.fun as it prepares to enter the launch-platform arena
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April 25, 2026312. TBR - NAT Listed on MEXC, LBank, CoinEx | Bitcoin Security Budget Math Through Saylor’s $441T | NAT as Second Subsidy | NAT.fun Launch Imminent
In Episode 312 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William, I-man, and TJ unpack a wild week for $NAT: overnight listings on three centralized exchanges with zero fees paid, a god-candle to a $150M market cap, and a deeper, more rigorous walk-through of the Bitcoin security-budget math than the show has ever done on-air. They run the numbers through Michael Saylor's $441 trillion scenario, show why fees can't close the gap, and lay out the case for NAT as a supplementary second subsidy capable of delivering $2.1B/day to miners. The episode closes with a commitment: the next video from The Block Runner is NAT.fun going live.
Disclosure: William and I-man are founders of NAT.fun and hold NAT tokens. All analysis in this episode reflects their perspective as participants in the ecosystem.
Key topics:
NAT token listed on MEXC, LBank, and CoinEx overnight — a fourth exchange followed the next day — with no listing fees paid, consistent with Constantinople-era organic exchange adoption
The god-candle: NAT market cap to ~$150M in an instant, flipping ORDI; hosts normalize expectations to a new ~$40–$60M floor with extreme volatility still ahead
Bankless on the Bitcoin security budget: Justin Drake's ultrasound-money framing, why "add tail issuance or move to proof-of-stake" is not a viable answer for Bitcoin
The full math walkthrough: at $100T market cap in 30 years, Bitcoin delivers only $116K per block — roughly half of today's $243K — a ~0.00006% security-to-value ratio
Running it through Michael Saylor's $441T scenario: five halvings out, Bitcoin still delivers only $2M/block and spends 0.0002% of its market cap on security — 100x below the U.S. 3.4% GDP-to-security benchmark
Why "fees will cover it" doesn't math out: $10,781 per transaction, every block, every day, forever, to approximate a U.S.-equivalent security ratio on a $100T BTC
NAT as a second subsidy: decoupled from Bitcoin's exponential decay, earned by miners alongside BTC, and still delivering in 2140 when subsidy hits zero
The efficiency comparison: at a $15T NAT market cap paired with Saylor's $441T BTC, NAT delivers ~$285M/block — 100x more than BTC at the same point in time
The on-air correction and the natgmi.com slider: at $1T NAT, miners receive $15M/block — 7x Bitcoin's current efficiency — or $2.1B/day
Why the hosts can't be the messengers: the token-founder conflict and the need for a neutral Andreas-style explainer to carry the math to Bitcoin's mainstream
NAT.fun preview and network-effect thesis: why the launch platform's success underwrites NAT's long-run demand, and why the hosts are going silent until it ships — the next video IS the launch
Do the math yourself. If you arrive somewhere different, bring it into the comments.
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April 18, 2026311. TBR - SpiderPool Distributes NAT + Bitcoin | Bitcoin Security Budget Math | NAT Token Value | NAT.fun Launch
In Episode 311 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William and I-man discuss SpiderPool's historic distribution of both Bitcoin and NAT tokens to pool participants, dive deep into the mathematical impossibility of Bitcoin's long-term security budget, and break down why the NAT token is the only viable solution. They also preview the imminent launch of NAT.fun, a new NFT platform built on Bitcoin block production data.
Key topics:
SpiderPool — the 5th largest Bitcoin miner — officially begins distributing both BTC and NAT to pool participants, marking a historic first and validating months of anticipation
Bitcoin's security budget math crisis: why the X-squared price growth requirement is mathematically impossible and what the halving subsidy trajectory means for decentralization by 2140
NAT token as Bitcoin's only viable supplemental subsidy: 60% of global hash power already backing it, and how $1,000/block at $1B market cap reaches fee parity — 1,400x below Bitcoin's current valuation
Skeptics and scoffers in the Bitcoin ecosystem — why the CMO of Brains laughed at SpiderPool's announcement and why that pattern of dismissal has a well-documented historical cost in crypto
NAT.fun platform preview: how the viability-test launch mechanism (bonding curve + graduation) on Solana uses Bitcoin block production data to revive NFTs with a sustainable creator economics model
Quantum computing vs. economic attack vectors on Bitcoin — why $24B to attack Bitcoin for one hour is nothing compared to nation-state security budgets of $500B-$1T/year
The grain-of-sand thought experiment: why Bitcoin's exponential price growth requirement correlates to pricing every grain of sand on Earth at $700
NAT.fun and its role in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem revival, including a brief Ordinals market resurgence signal
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April 11, 2026310. TBR - AI Brainrot Goes Mainstream | Google’s Quantum Warning | Taproot Wizards Reckoning | NAT.fun Launch Logic
In Episode 310 of The Block Runner Podcast, William, I-man, and TJ unpack how AI-generated brainrot content is becoming a real signal for cultural product-market fit, why Google’s quantum warning should terrify crypto builders, and what the Taproot Wizards fallout says about speculative fundraising without clear execution.
Key topics:
How AI fruit videos, brainrot memes, and viral internet culture reveal where attention is actually flowing online
Why NAT.fun may benefit from culture-native creation instead of fighting it, and how market signals can outperform vanity metrics
Google’s quantum warning for crypto, Chamath’s honeypot framing, and why crypto may be the first public target of a real cryptographic break
The growing concern that Bitcoin governance and core development may be more capital-driven than many investors want to admit
Taproot Wizards, Quantum Cats, and the brutal post-raise drawdown that exposes weak execution and overpromised narratives
Why bonding-curve style market discovery may be a cleaner model than raising massive capital upfront on speculative roadmap promises
How DMT, cultural iteration, and creator tooling fit into NAT.fun’s thesis as the team approaches launch
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April 04, 2026309. TBR - NAT.fun Launch Countdown | Google Quantum Paper & Bitcoin Security | Pump.Fun AMM & NFT Thesis
In Episode 309 of The Block Runner Podcast, hosts William, I-man, and TJ tackle the solopreneur billionaire hype, the reality of building with AI, and the upcoming NAT.fun platform launch.
Key topics:
The AI solopreneur billionaire — hype vs reality and why expectations are broken
NAT.fun launch countdown — creator playbooks, collector mechanics, and bonding curves
Google's quantum computing paper — Bitcoin's elliptic curve at risk sooner than expected
Bitcoin security budget crisis — Justin Drake's warning and why miners are leaving for AI compute
NFT market collapse — OpenSea's $6K daily volume and why the launch model was the real problem
Pump.Fun's declining 58-second hold times and the case for non-arbitrary tokens
NAT.fun creator economy — simulated earnings, fame system, and dual-asset distribution
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March 28, 2026308. TBR - AI Content Evolution | NAT.fun on Solana | Non-Arbitrary Tokens & Bitcoin’s Security Budget
In Episode 308 of The Block Runner Podcast, William, I-man, and TJ break down why The Block Runner is changing its content strategy, how AI tools are finally making higher-leverage production realistic, and why that same shift in tooling is feeding directly into the launch thesis behind NAT.fun.
Key topics:
Why highly edited crypto content now has a real production edge, and how AI assistants are changing what a small team can ship
The state of generative video tooling, from Sora’s strange stall to Seedance emerging as the model the team actually wants to test
Why the old NFT model died, including overpriced launches, roadmap fantasy, and creators extracting value before markets validated demand
How Pump.Fun solved liquidity bootstrapping for fungible tokens, and why that same mechanism can be repurposed as a viability test for NFT launches
What makes NAT.fun different, including non-arbitrary token supplies, Bitcoin block pattern data, and creator launches that start at zero market cap
How the platform’s vibe feed turns market participation into real-time creative feedback instead of blind speculation
Why the NAT token and DMT framework are ultimately tied to Bitcoin’s long-term security budget, not just another short-cycle crypto narrative
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