CoinDesk Podcast Network

At Consensus Miami, BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes joins CoinDesk Live to break down why AI-driven layoffs could create the next banking crisis and how bitcoin is already pricing it in. He also shares his updated BTC price target, his conviction bet on Hyperliquid, and why he thinks crypto regulation misses the point entirely.

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00:00 - Q1 No-Trade Zone and What Changed Arthur's View

02:34 - AI Layoffs, Over-Leveraged Economy, and the Coming Banking Crisis

04:57 - Why the Fed Is Missing the Problem and What Bitcoin Is Signaling

06:09 - Crypto Regulation, the CLARITY Act, and Why Arthur Doesn't Care

08:29 - Bitcoin $125K Target and the Money Printing Thesis

09:26 - Hyperliquid, Hype $150 by August, and Why Trading Apps Win

15:23 - Prediction Markets, Zcash, and Why Altcoins Will Never Die

Will the AI IPO pipeline drain crypto?

Cerebras priced its IPO at a $40 billion valuation, nearly 5x what it was worth eight months ago. The AI capital boom is pulling investor attention and money away from crypto, with SpaceX and OpenAI listings still to come. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie hosts "CoinDesk Daily."

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

MARA provided updates for its AI business in its earnings this week, and Nebius shocks the market with a 684% rise in revenue YoY in Q1.

Welcome back to The Blockspace Podcast! For news, we break down why major pools like MARA and viaBTC are signaling support for the Great Consensus Cleanup (BIP 54), plus Q1 earnings recaps for MARA and Nebius. For guest segments, Lucas Krejci, CTO of Brains, joins us to talk about the new Stratum V2 working group with Block, MARA, Foundry, Antpool, and other leading bitcoin mining firms. Pio Vincenzo also joins to give his bull case for Strategy – including why the company selling bitcoin is not what people think – and Mezo’s Yogi hops on to give a breakdown for why Spirit Airlines bit the dust.

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Grant Cardone joins CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2026 in Miami to explain his real estate-Bitcoin hybrid strategy — stacking $100M of Bitcoin on a $235M Boca Raton property. Plus, why Michael Saylor advised him to drop the real estate altogether, his takedown of the crypto community's "degenerate investing," and an oddly specific Bitcoin year-end target: $189,425.

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00:00 Grant Cardone Joins CoinDesk Live at Consensus 2026

00:48 The Real Estate-Bitcoin Hybrid

02:35 Why Real Estate Beats Bitcoin's "Deficiency": Cash Flow

03:34 "Change Lanes on Your Way to Success"

05:43 "Saylor Told Me to Drop the Real Estate"

06:42 The Multi-Trillion Real Estate Correction Nobody's Talking About

08:46 Crypto: "A Magnet for Degenerate Investing"

09:00 "Real Estate Gets Sick, It Never Dies"

09:36 The Bitcoin Year-End Target: $189,425

In a CoinDesk interview following Consensus Miami 2026, Strategy Founder, Michael Saylor, discusses being the world’s largest bitcoin buyer with $62B purchased. In this interview, Saylor describes the convergence of TradFi and DeFi via their digital credit product Stretch (STRC), which has rapidly grown and helps fund bitcoin accumulation.