CleanSpark’s Rory Murray joins us to explain the macro forces driving bitcoin’s price and how the options market may be suppressing bitcoin.

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Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! Today, CleanSpark's VP of Digital Asset Management Rory Murray joins us to talk about the latest macro shocks hitting the market and how they are driving bitcoin’s price. Rory breaks down how the options market may have been weighing on bitcoin’s price in Q4, and how the options market has changed bitcoin’s market. We also dive into the six sigma move in Japanese rates, the unraveling of the yen carry trade, and how geopolitical tensions over Greenland are affecting global liquidity. Rory explains why bitcoin is being buffeted by noise while gold and silver take the lead in the debasement trade, plus the intersection of AI energy demand and Bitcoin mining as we head into 2026.

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Notes:

* Japan 40-year bond yields topped 4% first time.

* Japan has world's highest debt-to-GDP ratios.

* Korean equity index rose 70% last year.

* Yen carry trade has driven trillions in flow.

* Gold crossed USD as top central bank reserve.

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

03:20 Bitcoin & macro

06:45 Japan

17:08 Carry trade & liquidity drying up

18:08 Debasement trade

18:47 Hypercycle

22:50 Silver rally

23:18 Energy is the value creator

26:59 Options suppressing Bitcoin price?

41:10 Dampening volatility

42:35 Next 90 days

46:07 Cleanspark's BTC stack

48:14 Easier or harder to manage stack

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